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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 

Adel Bashqawi

June 17, 2023

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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 →

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia / June 17, 2023  

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Автор: Валерий ХАТАЖУКОВ, председатель Кабардино-Балкарского регионального правозащитного центра

Опубликовано: 14 июня 2023

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A Circassian View on Kiev Conference Regarding Symbolic Rare Case of Independence

Adel Bashqawi

June 5, 2023

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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 →