Winter sports don’t command much of a following in a Middle East more familiar with sand than snow, but one of the region’s lesser-known minorities will be glued to its TV screens when the Olympics ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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BOLSHOI KICHMAI, Russia – 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 bicycles, ...

16 October 2008 Amman - Aiming to revive and preserve the Circassian language and heritage, the Circassian community in Jordan hosted yesterday the First International Circassian Language Conference.

Some 4,000 Circassians live in Israel, descendants of Sunni Muslims pushed out of the Caucasus region by Russia in the 19th century. There are over 130,000 Druze in Israel. They are an Arabic-speaking ...

The Federation of United Caucasus Associations, which represents Circassians and other communities, has rejected allegations that Circassians were assimilated in Turkey. Speaking to Anadolu Agency ...

The Circassian town of Kfar Kama in northern Israel was selected as an international “tourist village” by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) for its second annual round-up of global ...