Window On Eurasia: Unified Circassia Said No Threat To Russia, But A Divided One Could Be
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posted by eagle on January, 2010 as CIRCASSIA ADIGA
Paul Goble
Vienna, January 25 – A unified Circassian republic “is no threat” to the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, a leading Circassian organization says, but Moscow’s maintenance or even exacerbation of Soviet-imposed divisions could well presents the country with serious problems, according to a leading Russian analyst of the North Caucasus.
For most of the last two decades, the Circassians, who were divided by Stalin into four different ethnic groups – the Adygeys, the Kabards, the Cherkess, and the Shapsugs, one which has its own political unit, two of which are combined with another group, and one without such a territory – have called for the formation of a single republic within Russia.
The clearest such call came last November when an extraordinary congress of the Circassian people meeting in Karachayevo-Cherkessia adopted a ...
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Window on Eurasia: Unified Circassia Said No Threat to Russia, But a Divided One Could Be
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Unified Circassia Said No Threat to Russia, But a Divided One Could Be, by Paul Goble
Window on Eurasia
Vienna, January 25 – A unified Circassian republic “is no threat” to
the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, a leading
Circassian organization says, but Moscow’s maintenance or even
exacerbation of Soviet-imposed divisions could well presents the
country with serious problems, according to a leading Russian analyst
of the North Caucasus.
For most of the last two decades, the Circassians, who were divided
by Stalin into four different ethnic groups – the Adygeys, the Kabards,
the Cherkess, and the Shapsugs, one which has its own political unit,
two ... | >> full
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NatPress: Asker Soht: Division Of The SFD Does Not Threaten Our Nation
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Asker Soht: Division of the SFD does not threaten our nation
1/21/2010 - 1:15 pm - NatPress Interview with Asker Soht (“Adyghe Khasa” of Krasnodar) NatPress: Asker Kazbekovich, how can you comment the decree of the president of Russian Federation about creation of the North-Caucasian federal district? Why, in your opinion, it did not include Adygeya Republic, and Krasnodar region? A.Soht: The purposes of creation of such new federal district are clearly formulated by the president of Russian Federation. They are struggle against terrorism, as well as the economic and social modernization of the whole region. The fact that Adygeya Republic was not included in the outlined by the decree “disaster circle” only inspires me. We should not forget that division of the state into federal districts has nothing common with its territorial structure. The administration of the federal district is just a coordinator of the federal structures. And nothing else. I do not see any threats to the statehood of our nation in ... >> full
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Jamestown Foundation: Moscow Uses Commission On “Historical Falsification” To Deny Circassian Rights
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Moscow Uses Commission on “Historical Falsification” to Deny Circassian RightsPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor January 21, 2010 09:56 AM  An example of a sign that Sergei Markov, a member of the special presidential commission, discusses
“The main goal of the ‘Special Presidential Commission against falsifications of the history of the Russian Federation causing harm to Russian national interests’ is to identify and fight against conscious, imprudent falsifications, aimed on the political results,” declared Sergei Markov, the deputy head of the State Duma’s committee on public associations and religious organizations and a member of the special presidential commission (Vechernyaya Moskva, December 29, 2009).
In his statement, Markov gave two examples of what he called “purely politically-aimed” falsifications that damage Russia’s national interests. The first, he said, is the Golodomor (the Ukrainian accusation that the Soviet Union committed genocide against the Ukrainian people in 1932-1933, when thousands of Ukrainians died of hunger). According to Ukrainian claims, ... >> full
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Window On Eurasia: Adygeya Expanding Contacts With Circassian Compatriots Abroad
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Paul Goble
Vienna, January 21 – The Adygey Republic government is expanding its effort to reach the five million Circassian compatriots abroad, developing programs that both track with and go beyond what Moscow has been doing over the past decade to reach ethnic Russians living outside the Russian Federation.
In an interview with Natpress.net posted online today, Vyacheslav Zhachemuk, head of the republic committee on nationality affairs, relations with compatriots and mass information, says that reaching out to ethnic diasporas and viewing them as a resource for foreign and domestic affairs “corresponds to world practice” (www.natpress.net/stat.php?id=4864).
For most of the last decade, he points out, Moscow’s compatriot program has focused on ethnic Russians to the exclusion of other groups. But in its program for 2009-2011 approved in November 2008, the central government called for the development of ties “not only for ...
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