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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Almost anyone can tell you that Israel is a Jewish state. As a matter of fact, roughly 75% of Israel’s population is Jewish. The next largest group is Arabs, both Muslim and Christian, followed by ...

As earthly circles of hell go, modern-day Newark is in an altogether different, gentler category from post-WWII Leningrad. Still, in Kantemir Balagov’s long-awaited third feature “Butterfly Jam,” ...

“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 ...

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 ...

On 21 May each year, Circassians around the world honor their ancestors who perished in the course of the Russian Empire's war of conquest against them. The 101-year struggle culminated in the mass ...

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 ...

A new UN World Tourism Organization title is set to bring tourists to the small Lower Galilee village, but residents want people to know who they really are – and not throw garbage in their streets.

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 ...