Cherkessians mourn

Some people in Russia, Georgia and the USA believe
that 93% of Adygeis were either killed or became refugees in the
Russian-Caucasian war in the XIX century. And on 21st of May 1864 there
was a military parade in Krasnaya Poliana dedicated to the victory over
Adygeis.

Today it became a day-off in Karachay-Cherkessia. There will be
meetings, memorial performances. Prokhladnenskiy region will hold
several events: there will be a historic meeting about the Caucasian
war, aftermath and people who participated. The clergy will say
commemoration prayers and then honor the fallen with a minute silence.
There will be a book exhibition ‘The hundred tragic springs of Adygeis’
and talks with students ‘Memory has limited terms’.

In Adygeya, in Maykop there will be a requiem meeting with presence of
high officials from the republic’s from social and religious
organizations, including the Muslim mufti of Adygeya and Krasnodar
territory and the bishop of Maykop and Adygeya to hold prayer service
near the stone of the future memorial to victims of the war.Adygey state
university will hold a round table on ‘Caucasian war: history and
modernity’ and Maykop state technological university will discuss ‘The
truth and fiction of the Caucasian war in the XIX century. The culture
center ‘Giant’ will demonstrate a feature film called ‘Cherkess’, filmed
in Jordan. The film is dedicated to the history of arrival of Cherkess
immigrants to the Ottoman Transjordan.

It is uncertain whether there will be any mourning events in Moscow.
Adygeis social organization in Moscow ‘Khabzem and Nur’ requested the
Adyg embassy to provide Moscow Adygeis with room or the embassy’s inner  yard for the mourning. Last year ‘Khabzem and Nur’ organized a minute of  silence on the Teatralnaya Square, but after the latest events in Moscow they do not want any extra attention. The head of the organization Talustan Ketov said that Cherkess youth from all over Russia donated money to make memorial ribbons and their distribution all over the
world.

The memorial ribbons are associated with the St. George ribbons. Adygeis
sent them to Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygeya, Sochi,
St. Petersburg, the USA, Europe. An art workshop D-M-A is selling
T-shirts with Cherkess symbolic, as well as caps, pennons, magnets. The
most amazing of the souvenirs is the magnet the 1830 map of Cherkessia,
on the photo above. n Moscow.