My visit to Düzce University: Kartvelism is not idle! By İrfan Çağatay

Lazoba-- During my stay in Germany, I received good news via our ex-foreign affairs Minister Yaşar Yakış. We had last winter interviewed Mr. Yaşar for the Ağani Murutsxi in the Laz language. During the interview I had mentioned to Mr. Yasar our efforts to create a “Laz Language and Literature” programme at universities located in Rize and Artvin. Mr. Yasar had in turn asked me whether we had submitted a proposal to Düzce University in this regard and also told us that he personally knew the Chancellor and would discuss the matter further with her. 

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Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev in Abkhazia, 1963

The relationship between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev began when Cuba became a communist country and Cuba started to establish close relations with the Soviet Union. Both Fidel and Nikita shared the same beliefs, such as communism was the best type of government rather than capitalism. During the Cold War, Cuba relied on the Soviet markets and military aid.

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Reports of Abkhazia’s impending annexation are exaggerated

Taklama -- According to the most spurious headlines, Abkhazia's annexation by Russia has just about already happened. And even some serious news outlets and commentators proclaim that the proposed Treaty on Alliance and Integration is a step in that direction and constitutes in terms of sovereignty a point of no return. But what exactly does the treaty say?

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Otherworldly Abkhazia cave

Vladimir Mulde/Caters News -- These otherworldly images give a rare glimpse inside caves barely ever seen by the human eye. With its peculiar pools of water and strange colored sediments, the bizarre looking tunnels of the Shakuranskaya cave could be a set straight out of a science fiction film.

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Window on Eurasia: Can the Ubykh Language Return from the Dead?

Tevfik Esenc and George Hewitt

Paul Goble - Window on Eurasia

Staunton, October 4 – Deputies of the Kabardino-Balkarian parliament have appealed to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to include the Ubykhs, a subgroup of the Circassian nation, on the official list of numerically small indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation and thus take the first step to the revival of a language which has been considered dead since 1992. 

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