REHANIYA (AFP) — On a sunny afternoon, Shina Shabso was busy making traditional cheese pastries for a wedding on Israel’s border with Lebanon. The celebration in the Circassian village of Rehaniya was ...

In the Russian Federation republics of Kabardino-Balkaria, Adygea, and Karachay-Cherkessia, May 21 is officially recognized as the Day of Mourning for the Circassians — victims of genocide during the ...

Tensions between the authorities and civil society are rising in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria after ...

As of November 2024, in the ongoing Russian–Ukrainian war, approximately 200 people from Kabardino-Balkaria, 150 from Karachay-Cherkessia, and 200 from the Republic of Adygea, along with about 250 ...

TBILISI -- A group of Georgian deputies says it is ready for parliamentary discussion about the 19th-century massacres of Circassians by Tsarist Russian forces in the North Caucasus, the Caucasian ...

NALCHIK, Russia -- The 145th anniversary of the end of the Russian-Circassian war in the North Caucasus was marked on May 21, RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service reports. Kabardino-Balkaria President ...

The head of the executed man thought, saw, suffered. And I saw what he saw, understood what he thought, and felt what he suffered. How long did it last? Three minutes, they told me. The executed man ...

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 ...

Albeit not taking any sides, roughly 130.000 Circassians suffer from the severe consequences of war in Syria. Their compatriots organize sit-in protests all around the world to bring awareness. Sagus ...