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.
The Russian Policy Continues Without Hesitation to Undermine the Foundations of the Circassian Identity
Adel Bashqawi
28 December 2022
Since the early time of invasion and occupation of Circassia, the Russian state has been tirelessly implementing its infernal and exclusionary plans, secretly and openly, and through the central and regional authorities represented by their security arms and agents. This comes in the context of undermining the foundations of the Circassian identity, as the ruling system did not hesitate to do what it could in order to establish the tragic fait accompli and eliminate the nation and its identity, and consolidate the status quo according to a systematic Russian colonial plan that ultimately aimed to eliminate the remaining symbols of the Circassian identity and civilization. The identity is represented by language, culture, customs, traditions, arts, etc., which in their entirety express the authentic identity that emanated from the Circassian homeland.
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Monday, December 19, 2022
Moscow and Its Agents in KBR Shift from Ignoring Activists to Repressing and Silencing Them, Khakuasheva Says
Paul Goble
Staunton, Dec. 19 – Over the last decade, Moscow and its representatives in Kabardino-Balkaria have shifted from ignoring those who call attention to the threats to the native languages to harassing and repressing them in the hopes of silencing them and keeping others from finding out what is going one, Madina Khakuasheva says.
The senior scholar at the Institute for Research on the Humanities of the KBR Center of the Russian Academy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an institution that itself has been under serious attack (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/11/kbr-scholars-say-powers-now-using.html) is one of the most distinguished of those now subject to such repressive actions.
In an open letter to senior officials in her republic, Khakuasheva asks for them to intervene on her behalf to protect her from the illegal and entirely unwarranted actions of the FSB and anti-extremism agencies against her (zapravakbr.ru/index.php/doc/1859-madina-khakuasheva-v-svoej-deyatelnosti-ya-i-moi-kollegi-nikogda-ne-vykhodili-za-ramki-zakonov). Read more
A Visit to the Circassian “King Oak” Sacred Tree Site / Посещение священного черкесского дерева «Королевский дуб»
December 3, 2022
The following is the English translation (AI-generated via Microsoft Copilot):
A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to visit a very interesting place in the basin of the Shakhe River — the Bykhoai tract, where to this day the “Tsar Oak,” a sacred Circassian tree, has been preserved. According to approximate estimates by botanists, the age of this oak is about 500–600 years.
For the Black Sea Adygs, who since ancient times have revered the cult of trees, the attitude toward nature is special: they consider this green giant sacred, calling it Thachég — literally “existing under God.” That is why they carefully protect it from outsiders’ eyes. For the local Shapsugs, this is a kind of place of power.
P.S. Thanks to Misha Lovikov for the excursion!
