Sport
Circassiada 2012 - World Circassian Olympic Games
Circassiada is a project of Circassian Olympic Games to be held in Nalchik in 2012, during 12 days in 12 branches of sport— corresponding to the number of stars on the Circassian flag. Its motto is an old Circassian proverb ‘Kindness begets kindness’. The authors of the idea and the project are Sufian Zhemukho, current expert with PONARS’ Eurasia program and a former Fulbright scholar, and Aleksey Bekshoko, chairman of the Union of Abkhaz Volunteers.
The Circassian Dimension of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, by Sufian Zhemukhov
PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 65
In 2014, the popular Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi will host the Winter Olympics, signifying Russia’s increasingly high international profile. The honor of hosting the Olympics is a challenge and opportunity for the host country, which must be ready for a number of unexpected, if inevitable, domestic and foreign challenges. Criticisms and controversy accompany the run-up to every Olympic Games. China, for example, withstood intense pressure from international nongovernmental organizations before the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics due to the situation in Tibet. In 2002, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) suggested that the Winter Games be relocated from Salt Lake City, since the United States was a country at war (with the Taliban in Afghanistan). Earlier, in 1980, U.S. President Jimmy Carter asked the IOC to move the Olympic Games from Moscow after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The 2014 Olympics in Sochi are still five years away, but they have already become one of the most discussed issues on the Russian political agenda.
Circassian Olympiad organizing committee prepared book and web-site
Caucasian Knot - September 7 - The organizing committee on preparation and carrying out of Circassian Olympiad prepared for publication the book "Circassian Olympiad: Presentations in Russia". In Internet the web-site "Circassiada-2012"...
Grandmasters are assembling in Nalchik
From April 14 through 29, Nalchik will host the international chess tournament - FIDE Grand Prix. On April 2, in Nalchik, in the House of Government was held a press conference, devoted to the preparations for this sporting event, great for the republic. The press conference was attended by the Deputy Chairman of the Government of KBR Madina...Aslanbek Khushtov - an Olympic hero! by Oleg Luban
Kabardino-Balkaria - As one sports journalist has noted, they have not lost the skill of "making champions" in the Caucasus. The third gold medal was won for Russia by a fighter from Kabardino-Balkaria Aslanbek Khushtov in the weight category up to 96 kg.