Kabardino-Balkaria is celebrating the 89th anniversary of its statehood, RIA Novosti reports. On September 1st 1921 Kabarda became independent from the Mountain Republic and turned into the Kabardin autonomy by the RSFSR, reorganized into the Kabardino-Balkarian autonomy on January 16th 1922. The Day of Statehood was established in 1997.
There will be theater performances, concerts, exhibitions and sporting events ending with fireworks in Nalchik.
In his speech to the people, the President of Kabardino-Balkaria, Arsen Kanokov, called the last 89 years a switch from a patriarchal-feudal to a modern national-state structure as part of Russia.
The president said that the most significant achievement is the ascension from widespread illiteracy to a high level of education. He also noted that the republic coped with the repercussions of the financial-economic recession and is developing steadily.
Kanokov said that this all inspires confidence that the people of Kabardino-Balkaria will continue their path of peace and social progress as part of the multinational family of peoples of the Russian Federation.
