Muhammed Cherkesov remembers his grandparents whispering about the Russian soldiers who drove his forefathers at gunpoint from their mountain homes down to the Black Sea coast in the mid-19th century.

BOLSHOI KICHMAI, Russia (AP) — While Vladimir Putin and rich Olympic sponsors watch the Winter Games in gleaming arenas, boys in nearby Bolshoi Kichmai herd their goats by tying them to rickety ...

The Circassians in Turkey held commemoration ceremonies in Kefken and in Ankara on May 21, the 159th anniversary of the Tsitsekun. The Circassian diaspora in Turkey organized commemoration ceremonies ...