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

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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

An 1840 illustration shows Circassians attacking a Russian Military Fort which was built over a Shapsugian village. (Wikimedia Commons)
An 1840 illustration shows Circassians attacking a Russian Military Fort which was built over a Shapsugian village. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Инициаторы обращения восьми общественных организаций КБР с призывом принять участие в переписи населения

Инициаторы обращения восьми общественных организаций КБР с призывом принять участие в переписи населения


 

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Clarification on the Self-name of the Circassian People

Clarification on the Self-name of the Circassian People

Interpreted from the Russian language

October 20, 2021

Edmund Spencer, Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary &c: including a steam voyage down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black sea
Edmund Spencer, Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary &c: including a steam voyage down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black sea

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Bislan Hagaz’i: The Caucasus Federation did not keep its promise

Bislan Hagaz’i: The Caucasus Federation did not keep its promise

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Bislan Hagaz’i from the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria is a jurist by profession who works in various Circassian affairs and especially on the issue of supporting returnees to the historical Circassian homeland.

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Moscow Gelded Circassian National Movement by Killing Young Circassians Radicalized by Islam, Yaganov Says

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Moscow Gelded Circassian National Movement by Killing Young Circassians Radicalized by Islam, Yaganov Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Sept. 21 – The Circassian national movement is currently stalled because between 2005 and 2015 the Russian siloviki and Russian skinheads killed “some 2,000” Circassian young people who had been radicalized by post-Soviet Islam, “an unbearable loss for our small people,” according to Ibragim Yaganov.

            But despite that, the leader of Circassians in Kabardino-Balkaria says, there is every reason to believe that a new generation of young people are emerging who will overcome the fears the powers have sought to instill, take up the struggle and give new strength to the national movement (caucasustimes.com/ru/ibragim-jaganov-o-cherkesskom-obshhestve-i-islame/). Read more

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International Circassian Association (ICA) after 30 Years of Existence – Results: Zero

International Circassian Association (ICA) after 30 Years of Existence – Results: Zero

International Circassian Association (ICA) after 30 Years of Existence – Results: Zero

We bring you an article published in one of the Circassian blogs (Circassia Times) about the achievements of the so-called International Circassian association. The article was published two years ago but it is still relevant today and the result has remained unchanged. 

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