A Speech at the 13th Free Nations PostRussia Forum Conference
Economic Implications of the Transformation of the Last European Colonial Empire into 41 Independent Post-Russian States – Circassia as an Example
Adel Bashqawi
December 16, 2024
The 13th Free Nations PostRussia Forum Conference,
Wellington Building, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
November 19, 2024
The 13th Free Nations of PostRussia Forum Conference was held at Wellington Building in Ottawa, ON, Canada, on November 19, 2024, was scheduled to have four discussion panels. It happened that I participated in Discussion Panel 4, where the topic was: “Economic implications of the transformation of the last European colonial empire into 41 independent post-Russian states. Can the new independent states become strong democracies and integrate into the global economic market?”
When it was my turn, I was asked the main question about Discussion Panel 4 topic; but another question was added in regard to the “Kuban” topic, and its link to Circassia. However, when the video was posted on X, both the second question and answer parts of my speech that relate to the Kuban controversial issue were deleted from the answer; but when I enquired, I was answered that their partner in Ottawa didn’t send the whole recording; but the whole video will be posted when they receive it.
Below, I will mention the main the points of my brief speech:
Answer 1:
• If Russia falls apart nowadays, which is more likely to happen, peoples and nations who are captive and subjugated by the Russian Federation or so-called Russian Federation now will be in a much better place to exercise their economical future whether individually or collectively.
• I would give an example that when the Soviet Union collapsed, many observers were saying that these new republics would fail because Russia was financing them in one way or another. But that was and turned out to be false, because they have succeeded and they had an even better economy than Russia itself.
• One more thing in regard to the Baltic republics. At that time they said that these Baltic republics, they have small population and even the Russians contain fifty percent of each, and they not be able to survive, and they will not be able to make it; but I remember Paul Goble, which he is called the Godfather of the independence of the Baltic republics said No, they will be survive, they will succeed and will be in a better shape than they way they were with the Soviet Union.
• Eventually, they declared their independence and they became part of the European Union and NATO. They are now even supplying and supporting Ukraine in its just fight against Putin’s Russia.
• People want the Right to self-determination, freedom that leads to independence. Whenever they have these, “they are,” freedom is the ceiling to do anything they want. They have the resources, they have the strategic location, specially I am talking about Circassia now, on the Black Sea, they have minerals, they have gold, they have oil, they have gas, they have so many places to build resorts better than the Sochi Olympics resorts that Putin built on the land of the Circassian Genocide.
• Circassians in diaspora especially in Turkey, I know many of them that they have finance ability to have investment in their homeland, they have the capability to be good businessmen, to trade with the rest of the world, and they will make sure that their homeland will be much better and what russia is doing since its occupation to Circassia and even the North Caucasus, they were taking the resources and giving them part of the resources that they were taken.
Answer 2:
• As I recall, I answered that Kuban is the name of a Circassian river and basin, historically regarded as the northern boundary of Circassia. However, in 1860, following the Russian occupation of Circassia, the military commanders of the so-called Russian Caucasus Army established the Kuban Province administrative region in the Circassian part of the Northwestern Caucasus. The Circassians, who were subjected to extermination and mass deportation to the Ottoman Empire, were replaced by settlers in newly established settlements.
• Although Kuban Province was dissolved years later, the name was briefly revived during the Soviet era before being dissolved again. These actions were the result of the illegal military occupation, and, as such, all measures stemming from the occupation are unlawful and violate the principles of international law.
To conclude, “what is built on void is void.”
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