Sunday, July 9, 2023
OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly Declares Russia a Colonial Empire
Paul Goble

This group is devoted to elaborate on obtaining long lasted missing justice for the nations of the North Caucasus. It is also dedicated to concentrate on human rights issues that had been abducted when the invaders conquered and colonized the region.
A Monster Created by the Regime was on the Verge of Overthrowing It
Adel Bashqawi
June 25, 2023
War in Ukraine Has Changed Circassian Movement, and Moscow Is Worried
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 20 Issue: 101
By: Paul Goble
June 22, 2023
After a brief easing following the Sochi Olympics in 2014, which elevated attention on the Circassian issue to the global level, tensions between Moscow and the Circassians ebbed during the first part of the past decade only to rise again at its end (see EDM, October 5, 2021; May 19, 2022). But any chance that these tensions would ease again were dashed at the end of that decade, with Kyiv, as its fraught relationship with Moscow escalated, expressing increasingly active support for the Circassians and other non-Russian groups (Window on Eurasia, December 9, 2018; April 17, May 30, 2019). And these tensions have exploded again as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s expanded invasion of Ukraine and Kyiv’s increasing support for non-Russians within the Russian Federation as allies against Moscow’s mobilization. Read more
A Circassian View on Kiev Conference Regarding Symbolic Rare Case of Independence
Adel Bashqawi
June 5, 2023
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Far More Circassians Abroad Want to Return to their North Caucasus Homeland than have Applied to Do So, Expert Says
Paul Goble
Staunton, May 22 – Moscow’s increasingly restrictive approach to those its own laws declare to be compatriots but who do not speak Russian means that the share of the 3.5 million Circassians living in exile in Turkey who have applied to return is far smaller than the actual number who would like to go back, Umit Dincher says.
The president of the Federation of Caucasian Associations of Turkey says that is highlighted by what has happened since last winter’s destructive earthquakes hit that country. Many Circassians were near ground zero of that disaster, hoped to leave but recognized that going to Russia was no longer a real option given Moscow’s policies. Read more