The Circassian exile, recognized as a dark stain in human history, is commemorated as one of the most tragic events. The year 2024 marks the 160th anniversary of the forced expulsion of the Circassian ...

May 21, the Circassian Day of Mourning… The Circassians, an indigenous people of the Caucasus region, resisted the invasion attempts of Tsarist Russia for nearly 300 years. On May 21, 1864, Tsarist ...

One hundred days have passed since the September 4 inauguration of former Russian Constitutional Court Justice Boris Ebzeyev as president of the Karachayevo-Cherkessia Republic (KChR). Since then, ...

The people collectively known in the West as Circassians in fact constitute four major (Kabardians, Cherkess, Adygs, and Shapsugs) and several minor ethnic groups (including the Abazins). They speak ...

Sunday marked 159 years since Tsarist Russia exiled the Circassian people, a Caucasian ethnic group, from the Caucasus region on May 21, 1863. According to unofficial figures, close to 1.5 million ...

In recent years nationalism studies have been paying increasing attention, perhaps rightly, to the impact of the internet on various ethnic groups, national identities and diasporas. The internet ...

How does this place actually exist? How does it function as a discrete pocket of Israeli society while also maintaining nearly complete cultural autonomy? “Where are you from?” is a rather simple ...

An international outcry at the award of the prestigious Quadriga Prize to Vladimir Putin resulted in its cancellation for 2011, thus depriving the 3 other nominees of the honour they were to have ...

The Journal of Caucasian Studies (JOCAS) is a peer-reviewed, bi-annual, international, academic journal. It is also multilingual, including articles in English, Turkish and Russian. JOCAS gives voice ...

“The Circassian guards were established in 1921. Circassians came from the Caucasus starting in 1864 until 1920. They were a group of 40 soldiers and they welcomed Shariff Abdullah I and one of the ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link When the 2014 Winter Olympics kick off in Sochi, Russia next month, there will likely be an opening ceremony celebrating Russian history. One ...

The Circassian town of Kfar Kama in northern Israel was selected as an international “tourist village” by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) for its second annual round-up of global ...