Podcast | North Caucasians fighting in Ukraine and remembering the Circassian Genocide

25 May 2023

Elizaveta Chukahrova, an independent journalist from the North Caucasus, phones in to talk about the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the North Caucasus and how Russian authorities attempt to hide the number of dead.

Coffins from Ukraine in the North Caucasus

OC Media editor Yousef Bardouka talks about the commemoration of the Circassian Genocide in Nalchik and the state of Circassian activism in the diaspora.

Activists commemorate Circassian Genocide in Nalchik despite event ban

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The Verkhovna Rada in session. Official photo.

The Caucasus Digest

Podcast | Ukraine’s recognition of the Circassian Genocide

OC Media

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OC Media’s Yousef Bardouka and Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko discuss Ukraine’s recognition of the Circassian Genocide.

Circassian Genocide

Ukraine recognises Circassian Genocide

Yousef Bardouka

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Ukraine is the second country to recognise the Circassian Genocide after Georgia.

Circassian Genocide

Russian police raid home of parents of exiled Circassian activist

Luiza Mchedlishvili

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Russian police have interrogated and confiscated the phones of the parents of a Circassian independence activist in Karachay–Cherkessia after raiding their home. On 19 July, Kase Kik who is currently based in the US, stated that the police in Karachay–Cherkessia conducted a search of his parents’ residence, confiscating their phones in a move he called ‘illegal and unauthorised’. Kik said the search was carried out by the FSB and the local Interior Ministry’s Centre for Combating Extremis

Akhmad Ozdo, a member of the Ingush Independence Committee, declaring Ingushetia’s independence from Russia. Screengrab via Youtube.

Chechen and Ingush Deportations

Podcast | Fighting Russia’s colonial legacy in the North Caucasus

OC Media

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Since its conquest by Russia in the 19th century, the North Caucasus has been the scene of genocides, forced deportations, wars for independence, and insurgency. The dozens of nations indigenous to the region continue to be repressed socially and culturally by the Russian Federation. However, Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has once again raised the imperial nature of the Russian state and has shone a light on how this imperialism extends to the North Caucasus, as seve