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 ...

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 ...

Scattered across the world, Circassians are increasingly active online. Now in Russia, activists are putting forward an initiative to unite under a single name. Karachay-Cherkessia is a republic on ...

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, ...

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 ...

According to Quint: "We also provide benefits to non-Jewish soldiers. I believe this issue deserves to be highlighted. When you have Druze and Circassian sectors willing to come and serve with us, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...