Sunday, July 9, 2023
OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly Declares Russia a Colonial Empire
Paul Goble
OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly Declares Russia a Colonial Empire
Human Rights
Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / June 28, 2023
A Monster Created by the Regime was on the Verge of Overthrowing It
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
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
Circassia is not for Adventurers and Gamblers
New Circassian Committee More Political and Youth Oriented than Other Circassian Groups, Organizers Say
Friday, June 9, 2023
New Circassian Committee More Political and Youth Oriented than Other Circassian Groups, Organizers Say
Paul Goble
Staunton, June 7 – Russian pressure on and penetration of Circassian organizations abroad, generational changes in the community, and divisions about strategy and tactics among the more than five million Circassians in the diaspora have combined to produce more organizations which are often at odds with one another. Read more
