The Countries Russia Erased From The Map

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"Circassian culture was often exoticised within Russia ... we carried a kind of internalised self-doubt, shaped by Soviet and post-Soviet attitudes that framed local culture as backward"

A story true of every local culture and independent nation that Moscow tried to colonise

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/21/soviet-attitudes-framed-local-culture-as-backward-the-record-label-standing-up-to-russian-imperialism

#Circassians #Caucasus #imperialism #colonisation #genocide #soviethistory #histodons #ussr #soviet #music #russia #russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #musichistory #religion #islam #ethnography #punk

‘Soviet attitudes framed local culture as backward’: the record label standing up to Russian imperialism

Ored Recordings documents chants, laments and displacement songs of the Caucasus threatened by erasure. After the invasion of Ukraine, its ‘punk ethnography’ has never been more urgent

The Guardian
A Circassian folk dance group performing in Cologne.
(March 2008)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Volkstanz, #folkdance, #Kostüme, #costumes, #Tscherkessen, #Circassians, #Kaukasus, #Caucasia

"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."

#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees

https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/

#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia

Dancers of the Circassian Cultural Association of Cologne.
(December 1982)
(Foto scanned from slide: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Tanz, #dance, #Volkstanz, #folk_dances, #Tscherkessen, #Circassians, #Kaukasus, #Caucasia

Polish newspaper Przyjaciel Ludu - Feb 13th, 1847.

A poem titled “Śpiew górali Kaukaskich - The Song of the Caucasian Highlanders”.

The corresponding article mentions that the Polish exiles in the Caucasus heard this song from the #Circassians.

The ethnic cleansing of Free Circassian Nationalism

November 2016: Australia, the Anglican Church, the Catholic Church and Islam.

Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims And The Late Ottoman State

The period between 1850 to the start of the First World War saw an unprecedented refugee crisis strike the Ottoman Empire. An estimated North Caucasian Muslims, which included Circassians, Chechens,...

Middle East Monitor

We Free Circassian Nationalists stand with #Israel and all other besieged minorities around the globe.

#Jews #Kurds #Yazidis #Yezidis #Circassians #Adyghe #Cherkess

Адыгэм я лъэпкъгъэкlуэд, by Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan

translated by Elina Alter, Hilah Kohen, Ainsley Morse & Elaine Wilson #kazakh #circassians #ottomans #russia #genocide #migration #poetry

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2023/march/adygem-ya-lepkgeklued-ramil-niyazov-adyljan

Адыгэм я лъэпкъгъэкlуэд, by Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan

“come in dear guests and sit at my table / come into my house my doors are open / all who weren’t saved by the turkish sultan,” from “Адыгэм я лъэпкъгъэкlуэд,” by Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan 

World Literature Today