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 ...

AMMAN — HRH Princess Sanaa Asem on Monday inaugurated the Circassian Heritage Exhibition, organised by writer and researcher Adnan Bzadog at the Circassian Society in Zarqa. Bzadog and exhibition ...

Aibek Napso, director of the Circassian Heritage Centre in Kfar Kama, gives an overview of Circassian history and this people’s current struggles to preserve its identity in Israel The Circassian ...

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“They tried to forget us, as if we never even lived there,” says Circassian architect Abdullah Makhmudovic Berisov. Now 67 years old, Berisov speaks about the pain he feels when thinking of the 2014 ...

It has been 158 years since the Russian Empire exiled the Circassians from the Caucasus region, regarded as strategically important. In an effort to seize the northern Caucasus as part of its goal of ...

Amman, Jordan – On February 7, about 300 ethnic Circassians gathered for a brief demonstration in front of the Russian embassy here in the Jordanian capital. Holding signs with slogans such as: “No to ...

In a twist of historical irony, Vladimir Putin’s aggressive campaign in Ukraine has cast a renewed and intense global spotlight on Russia’s often suppressed past, particularly its legacy of imperial ...