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School director sues Circassian-language teacher in Kabardino-Balkaria

by OC Media

•4 min read

A school director in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria is suing one of her former employees after she spoke out against the lack of Circassian language lessons in the school. On 18 March, Nalchik City Court again heard testimony regarding a suit brought by the director of the city’s Gymnasium No 14, Rimma Zhamborova, against former Circassian language teacher Maryan Bagova and Kabardino-Balkaria’s Human Rights Centre. Zhamborova filed a lawsuit against Bagova and the Human Rights

Adygea

Woman wins fight to speak Circassian in Adygea supermarket

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•2 min read

A woman from Maykop, the capital of the Republic of Adygea, has won the right to speak with employees of the Magnit supermarket in her native Circassian (Adyghe) language. Elvira Kulokova, from Maykop, became embroiled in an altercation with the store, after a Magnit employee from Adygea refused to speak with her in Circassian. The employee explained to Kulokova in Russian that they are banned from using their mother tongue at work. ‘I want to hear Circassian; I want my children to hear i