Abkhaz-Circassian relations: An Interview with Ruslan Keshev, Chairman of the Circassian Congress.
1. For nearly twenty years of Abkhazia de facto independent state. What contribution have the Circassians in the struggle for the independence of Abkhazia and in the formation of Abkhaz statehood. These facts are little known to the general public.
Since the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union were expanded contacts between the Circassian and Abkhaz society - and among politicians, and between culture and science. In addition, the city of Sukhumi was established by the Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus, held the World Festival of the Abkhaz-Circassian culture.
Since the beginning of the war in Abkhazia on Aug. 14, 1992 began a wide volunteer movement of many Caucasian peoples, which played a prominent role, especially initially, ...
In the following the documented resolution (with the login data, date and the name of a responsible signatory) translated to English Language, of the Abkhazia's STATE Parliament on recognition of (so far only) their own GENOCIDE perpetrated by Russians, they even localaized where the Genocide had taken place, in the North-Western part of Abkhazia - which means towards theSochi direction.
Below the English Language translation is the Russian Language script.
Speaker of the National Assembly –
Parliament of the Republic of Abkhazia
Sokrat Djindjolia
Sukhum
November 15, 1997
# 362 - с – XIII
Resolution of the National Assembly – Parliament of
the Republic of Abkhazia "About the act of
deportation of the Abkhazians (Abaza) in 19th
century”
Colonialist politics of the Russian Empire during the Russo-Caucasian war (1817-1864) and following period cause great irreparable destruction to the Abkhazian (Abaza) people, its genofund. During the war of liberation for the independence ...
I slept badly in the Hotel Ritsa in Abkhazia. I had an unsettling dream in which I walked through an old house with an elderly Stalin, muttering malevolently to himself. In the morning, wondering who had disturbed my sleep, I had a long list of suspects from the other world.
Many of Abkhazia’s numerous ghosts must live within the walls of this whitewashed hotel. A convalescent Trotsky lived here in 1924 and gave a valedictory speech for Lenin from the first-floor balcony on the day of his old comrade’s funeral. Or I could have slept in the room of another of Stalin’s victims, the poet Osip Mandelstam. In 1993 the hotel produced more ghosts when it was burned to ...
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