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Russian senator for Karachay–Cherkessia arrested over double murder

7 February 2019 by OC Media

Rauf Arashukov being arrested in the Fed­er­a­tion Council (Sergey Bobylev / TASS)

Russian senator Rauf Arashukov has been arrested inside the Fed­er­a­tion Council, the Russian parliament’s upper chamber in Moscow, over the murder of two people in his native Karachay–Cherkessia. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: corruption, federation council, karachaevo-cherkessia, karachay–cherkessia, karachayevo-cherkessia, murder, Rauf Arashukov, Raul Arashukov, russia

Russia’s North Caucasus: buried in gas debts

7 October 2018 by Aslan Urumov

(kbrria.ru)

Russia’s Minister of North Caucasus Affairs has accused the subjects of the North Caucasus Federal District of stealing gas and elec­tric­i­ty and chronic non-payment. But many locals say the utility bills are beyond what they can pay.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: debt, electricity, gas, kabardino-balkaria, karachaevo-cherkessia, karachay–cherkessia, karachayevo-cherkessia, north caucasus, russia

Ingush Mufti unexplainedly absent from North Caucasus Muftiate conference

19 September 2018 by OC Media

Mufti of Karachay–Cherkessia Ismail Berdiyev and head of the Coor­di­na­tion Centre for Muslims of the North Caucasus speaking at the centre’s con­fer­ence (/Muftiate of Tatarstan)

Ingushetia’s Muftiate was absent on Saturday at a con­fer­ence of Muslim religious author­i­ties from through­out the Russian North Caucasus, OC Media has learnt. While the Muftiates of all other republics attended, Ingushetia was rep­re­sent­ed by the state religious author­i­ties, who have been in public conflict with the Mufti since 2015.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: chechnya, cherkessk, coordination centre, ingushetia, isa khamkhoyev, isa-khadzhi khamkhoyev, islam, karachaevo-cherkessia, karachay–cherkessia, karachayevo-cherkessia, muftiate, north caucasus, russia, salafism, sufism, wahhabism, yunus-bek yevkurov

Circassian scholars call for creation of single alphabet

24 August 2018 by OC Media

The 19 August con­fer­ence in Nalchik (/kbr.ru)

A con­fer­ence took place in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on Sunday on the preser­va­tion of the Cir­cass­ian language. Par­tic­i­pants voiced a hope that a long-running issue over the creation of a single alphabet for East and West Cir­cass­ian, the language’s two primary dialects, could soon be resolved.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: adygea, adyghe, circassian, circassian language, kabardian, kabardino-balkaria, karachaevo-cherkessia, karachay–cherkessia, karachayevo-cherkessia, nalchik

How Russian state pressure on regional languages is sparking civic activism in the North Caucasus

13 June 2018 by Open Democracy Russia

Photo: Ruslana Alibekova. Source: chernovik.net. All rights reserved.

New leg­is­la­tion that makes studying minority languages voluntary in Russian schools comes as signs of decreas­ing usage emerge.

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Filed Under: Minorities Tagged With: adygea, chechnya, dagestan, daghestan, ingushetia, kabardino-balkaria, karachaevo-cherkessia, karachay–cherkessia, karachayevo-cherkessia, language policy, languages, minority languages, north caucasus, north ossetia

Unemployment and outmigration keep Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia in stagnation

4 May 2018 by Aslan Urumov

Small business in the streets of Nalchik (Aslan Urumov /OC Media)

While official sta­tis­tics may say otherwise, many see unem­ploy­ment in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia as among the worst in Russia. Dein­dus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, social alien­ation, and local cor­rup­tion have all played a part in the region’s stag­na­tion.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Labour, Top Tagged With: abaza, agriculture, circassians, deindustrialisation, kabardino-balkaria, karachaevo-cherkessia, karachay–cherkessia, karachayevo-cherkessia, kbr, kchr, land expropriation, migration, nogay, unemployment

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