In Solidarity with the Circassians in Nalchik
19 May, 2022
Kabardino Balkar
Their Only Crime Was Not Being Russians. The Circassian Genocide, Wednesday, 18th May 2022
Their Only Crime Was Not Being Russians. The Circassian Genocide, Wednesday, 18th May 2022
Archival Collection on Circassian Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire after 1864 Now Available Digitally
Friday, May 6, 2022
Archival Collection on Circassian Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire after 1864 Now Available Digitally
Paul Goble
New Book Explains How and Why Bi-National Kabardino-Balkar Republic Survived
Thursday, April 28, 2022
New Book Explains How and Why Bi-National Kabardino-Balkar Republic Survived
Paul Goble
Staunton, April 18 – At the end of Soviet times, many in the binational republics that Moscow had created to play one ethnic group off against another felt that the time had come to divide them up. Chechnya and Ingushetia managed to split into two republics, but neither Karachay-Cherkessia nor Kabardino-Balkaria did.
The reasons that they failed to do so not only explains a great deal about the behind-the-scenes politics in Moscow and the North Caucasus but also sheds light on current political struggles in that region to form new more mono-ethnic republics, something that both the center and the rulers the Kremlin has imposed are very much against. Read more
Circassian Flag Day is not a Transient Occasion
Russian Factory Director in Nalchik Says KBR would Be Better Off if Both Kabards and Balkars were Deported Again
Monday, January 3, 2022
Russian Factory Director in Nalchik Says KBR would Be Better Off if Both Kabards and Balkars were Deported Again
Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 13 – Konstantin Kryuchkov, director of Nalchik’s Gidrometallurg factory, said in a video clip that has gone viral that Kabardino-Balkaria would be a better place if there were no Kabardins or Balkars there, something he suggested could be achieved by a repetition of the 1944 deportation of the two to somewhere else. Read more
The Circassians in Diaspora and the Right of Return: An Achievable Goal
The Circassians in Diaspora and the Right of Return: An Achievable Goal
Adel Bashqawi
First of January, 2022
