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	Abazins LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Abazins (self-designation: Abaza) are a people who live mostly in Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygeya of Russia.
		An Abazin diaspora exists in Turkey and various Arab countries, most of which are descendants of refugees from the Caucasian War with the Russian Empire.
		Abazins speak the Abaza language, a Northwest Caucasian language closely related to Abkhaz.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Abazins (126 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Berezovsky has consistently sided with the Cherkess and Abazin minorities in their disputes with Semenov, which has only served to further agitate ethnic tensions in the region.
		Accusations of electoral fraud led to demonstrations and scattered acts of violence, as the Cherkess and another Circassian minority, the Abazins, began to agitate for independence from Karachay-Cherkessia.
		The rest of the republic is comprised mainly of Slavs, both ethnic Russians and Cossacks, who have been the deciding factor in the politics of the republics.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/ruskara.htm (1061 words)

	Minority activists occupy Russian gov't HQ - Boston.com - Europe - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Members of the tiny Abazin minority want the 13 villages where they live be united in a single district with its own financing so they can organize educational and cultural programs to help preserve their language.
		Fewer than 30,000 Abazins are left in existence, all of them in Karachayevo-Cherkessiya, according to the latest 2002 Russian census.
		They are also protesting a regional parliament decision to transfer 2,470 acres of land from their villages to the city of Ust-Dzhegut, inhabited mostly by members of the dominant regional ethnic group, the Karachais.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/06/29/activists_occupy_russian_regional_office (343 words)

	Abkhazian language
		The Abkhazian language belongs to the northwest Caucasian family spoken by only the Abazins, Adyghey, Kabardians and Circassians.
		It is written in a modified Cyrillic alphabet.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ab/Abkhazian_language.html (46 words)

	2. A-B: Caususus People Profiles
		A small group of the Abazins also live in Turkey; while, since the nineteenth century, other groups are found in the Arabic countries.
		The two main Abazin sub-groups are the Tapanta and the Shkaraua.
		The Abazin believers were Moslems-Sunnites, and the family relations were of the Arabic type.
	www.hfe.org /_old/prayer/caucasus/caucus2.htm (2357 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Both the Cherkess and Abazin groups claim that Semenov is pursuing a flagrantly discriminatory policy in the republic, allotting all top government positions to members of the Karachai clan.
		Both Cherkess and Abazin leaders are demanding that the mayor of Cherkessk, Stanislav Derev, be appointed to the top job but Semenov remains obdurate.
		Any infringement of the rights of the Abazins and Cherkess is deemed by many to be a direct attack on the entire ethnic group.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/cau/cau_200008_45_04_eng.txt (587 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In-fighting Splits Circassian Minorities Cherkess and Abazin politicians are ostracised for accepting posts in the Karachai government By Murat Botashev in Cherkessk (CRS No. 48, 8-Sep-00) Minority leaders in Karachaevo-Cherkessia have been accused of launching a terror campaign against any of their ethnic kin who "collaborate" with the ruling authorities.
		The Cherkess and Abazin peoples have been at loggerheads with the Karachai majority ever since a Karachai general, Vladimir Semenov, was elected president of the North Caucasian republic nearly a year ago.
		Days after President Semenov's inauguration on September 14, Cherkess and Abazin leaders announced that any of their ethnic kin caught cooperating with the authorities would be ostracised.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/cau/cau_200009_48_03_eng.txt (793 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		The Abazins are an ethnic group related to the Abkhaz; they number approximately 30,000 and are the fourth largest ethnic group in the KChR, where they account for some 5 percent of the total population of 440,000.
		Specifically, the Abazins protested the annulment on 22 June by the Russian Supreme Court of a ruling by the KChR Supreme Court declaring illegal the KChR law revisiting the existing borders between the republic's municipalities.
		The Abazins demanded that law be revoked, arguing that it threatens their economic survival.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2005/06/1-RUS/rus-280605.asp?po=y (1873 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Ethnic minority activists occupy regional government headquarters in ...
		There are fewer than 30,000 Abazins left in existence, all of them in Karachayevo-Cherkessiya, according to the latest Russian census, in 2002.
		They have also been protesting a regional parliament decision to transfer 2,470 acres of land from their villages to the city of Ust-Dzhegut, inhabited mostly by members of the dominant regional ethnic group, the Karachais.
		At a meeting in the regional capital Monday, the Abazin activists also called for the resignation of Karachayevo-Cherkessiya leader Mustafa Batdiyev, who has already been under fire over his former son-in-law's alleged involvement in the killing of seven businessmen.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050629-0551-russia-minorityprotest.html (253 words)

	Abkhaz language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Abkhaz has about 100,000 speakers in Abkhazia, with up to 500,000 more living in northeastern Turkey.
		It belongs to the northwest Caucasian family spoken by only the Abazins, Adyghey, Kabardians and Circassians.
		Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language, indicating it originated in the northwest Caucasus.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /abkhazian_language.htm (432 words)

	LinguaMundi
		Those who make use of it are the Abazins, Adyghey, Kabardians and the Circassians.
		Abkhazian has minor connections with the remaining two North Caucasian families (North Central Caucasian and North East Caucasian, or Daghestanian), and simply no relation with Kartvelian (which is South Caucasian).
		The aforementioned Abazins, besides Abkhazian, also speak Abaza, which is usually seen by Linguists as a divergent dialect of Abkhaz - although both languages were awarded literary status in the early days of Soviet power in the Caucasus.
	linguamundi.blogspot.com (1313 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Karachay in Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Intervention by Moscow, both through mediation and review of the election by Russian courts, calmed the situation.
		Semenov retained power without incident until the 2003 presidential elections when, in contrast to 1999, only ethnic Karachay candidates ran for office; Semenov was narrowly defeated by Mustafa Batdyev.
		The Karachay make up approximately 43% of Karachay-Cherkessia's population; the Cherkess are perhaps 10%, the Abazins, 7%.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=36511 (1046 words)

	Prague Watchdog - Crisis in Chechnya - History of Russian-Chechen Relations: Attempt at a Polemic View
		At that time the attempts by Muscovites to conquer areas north of the Terek river were usually welcomed by local feudalists and independent rural communes since Moscow was regarded as a natural ally in their fight against military and political expansion from the south.
		Friendly relations between the Vainakhs (ancestors of Chechens and Ingushs) and adygs (Kabardinians, Cherkess, Abazins) were sustained by the peaceful settlement of Slavic peoples (Ukrainian and Russian Cossacks) in the foothills of the Caucasus.
		Colonization of the region by Cossack farmers led to mutual interactions and a certain ”cultural exchange“ between them and the highlanders, out of which emerged many similarities of traditions, morals and characteristics that are still in evidence today.
	www.watchdog.cz /?show=000000-000015-000006-000003-000001&lang=1 (1855 words)

	Caucasus Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Noteworthy, health condition of the draftees from Karachai-Cherkessia is favorably better, about 72% fit for service contrasting 69%, the average figure for Russia.
		The officials spoke of alternative state service at the press conference, as a chance for Abazins, the republic ethnic minority group.
		As of now the local government department appeared not to be ready to ensure the draftees with the working places in the republic to serve their alternative service term.
	www.caucasustimes.com /society/en/kche-221003.asp (333 words)

	The god must make all the world nations happy and freedom but he must not forget Abkhazia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Today it is know by the science environs that the Akhas are ancestors of Wubih, Abkhaz and Abazin.
		After war years this application continued, Abkhaz schools were closed and Georgian schools were opened.
		In 1948 Stalin who came to Sohum Kale said that we, Georgian like a more than Abazins.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/8598/abkhazia.htm (2163 words)

	Deutsche Abchasienhilfe e.V
		It is beyond question that the contact of multilingual people with the mountainous conditions that maintain many relics of the living world, is quickly obliterated in any conditions of flat lands.
		Combined vowels predominate, while there are very few independent vowels — there are 2 in the Abkhazian language, 2 with stress in the Abazin and 1 in the unstressed syllable, and 3 in the Ubykh.
		The structure (besides later subdivisions of the Abazins) of the West-Caucasian language community is 3-dimensional.
	www.abchasienhilfe.com /docs/kulturelles/kulturelles_literatur7.html (6838 words)

	Ethnic Minority In Russia Gets Demands After Protest - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Parliament speaker Sergei SmorodinIt said parliament also passed a measure setting up a single district for the Abazin population as well as for another ethnic minority, the Nogai Tatars, by the start of next year.
		The Abazins had pressed for their 13 villages to be united in a single district with its own financing.
		They had also protested a regional parliament decision to transfer land from their villages to the city of Ust-Dzhegut, inhabited mostly by members of the region's dominant ethnic group, the Karachai.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/07/aff8ba27-a515-4ef6-9bec-d1ee1a9fdfdd.html (226 words)

	Hezbollah shells fired; Israeli killed \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		NALCHIK, Russia – About 200 ethnic minority activists occupied the regional government headquarters in the southern Russian region of Karachayevo-Cherkessiya yesterday, demanding urgent action to save their dwindling population.
		Members of the tiny Abazin minority have demanded that the 13 villages where they live be united in a single district with its own financing, in order to be able to organize educational and cultural programs that would help preserve their language.
		There are fewer than 30,000 Abazins left in existence, all of them in Karachayevo-Cherkessiya, according to the latest Russian census.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050630/news_1n30world1.html (366 words)

	MINELREL-L Archive (09112000-11:13:26-16366)
		Ivlian Khaindrava reports from Tbilisi IN-FIGHTING SPLITS CIRCASSIAN MINORITIES Cherkess and Abazin politicians are ostracised for accepting posts in the Karachai government.
		Nevertheless, the demands of the Georgians for a part of the Black Sea fleet -- 40 naval vessels and two submarines based in the Georgian port of Poti -- and compensation for other military equipment removed from Georgia in 1991-1992 and costing some $10 billion, serve only to antagonise Moscow and remain unanswered.
		Ivlian Khaindrava is an independent Georgian journalist IN-FIGHTING SPLITS CIRCASSIAN MINORITIES Cherkess and Abazin politicians are ostracised for accepting posts in the Karachai government By Murat Botashev in Cherkessk Minority leaders in Karachaevo-Cherkessia have been accused of launching a terror campaign against any of their ethnic kin who "collaborate" with the ruling authorities.
	www.minelres.lv /minelres/archive/09112000-11:13:26-16366.html (2756 words)

	KARACHAY MALKAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Krushev government gave the permission for the Karachay people to return to their homeland in the year of 1957.
		The distribution of the population is as follows: Karachay people with the rate of 31%, Russians with the rate of 42%, Adige with the rate of 10%, Abazins with the rate of 7%, Nogay Turks with the rate of 3%, and the others with the rate of 7%.
		Turks generally live in the southern sections and in the basin of Kuban.
	www45.brinkster.com /karachaymalkar/karachaymalkarturks.htm (1759 words)

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		Asked why, they sigh in unison and answer that it is because people are unhealthy, the water has become bad, people eat poorly and living standards are low.
		You cannot get much more remote in Russia than the Khabez district of Karachai-Cherkessia province, a highland region predominantly populated by Circassians and Abazins, who are predominantly Muslims.
		There are just under 32,000 people here in 14 "auls" or mountain villages scattered across a gorge between two ridges, in the valleys of the Bolshoi Zelenchuk and Maly Zelenchuk rivers.
	www.kafkas.org.tr /absoluten/showarticle.php?articleID=201 (1184 words)

	Minority Ethnic Group Stages Protests in South Russia, Block Govt HQ - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		About 200 ethnic minority activists occupied government headquarters Wednesday in the southern region of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, demanding urgent action to save their dwindling population.
		Members of the tiny Abazin minority want the 13 villages where they live be united in a single district with its own financing so they can organize educational and cultural programs to help preserve their language, The Associated Press reported.
		Fewer than 30,000 Abazins are left in existence, all of them in Karachayevo-Cherkessia, according to the latest 2002 Russian census.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/06/30/cherkessk.shtml (894 words)

	"Settlement Systems, Ethnocultural Mosaics and Geopolitics of Mountainous Regions" - Mountain Forum Calendar
		From Stavropol, they will go to picturesque high mountains climbing the valley of the river of Bolshoi Zelenchuk in the Republic of Karachaevo- Cherkesia.
		On the way, they will visit the administration of the Adyge-Khabl district and will get acquainted with the ethnic and cultural heterogeneity of population of this district settled by Cherkesians, Abazins, Russians and Greeks.
		They will be told about the present-day situation in agriculture and in former collective farms (kolkhoz) and stop in a village.
	www.mtnforum.org /calendar/events/0109ssea.htm (813 words)

	"National factor" livened up in last days before presidential elections in Karachaevo-Cherkessia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With the advent of the general we showed our ability to unite and we have led him to a post of the president in a very hard struggle.
		We raised our heads and regained our dignity, and now three years later they (the Circassians and Abazins) have not proposed any presidential contender from their environment.
		They are breaking us up, though it was so hard for our people to unite; they are laughing behind our backs.
	eng.kavkaz.memo.ru /newstext/engnews/id/585550.html (309 words)

	The Carnegie Moscow Center - Publications - Books - Dmitri Trenin - The End of Eurasia: Russia on the Border Between ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Small ethnic groups, such as Abazins, Nogais, claim the right to territorial autonomy.
		There is a parallel movement to unite ethnically close peoples, e.g., within a Greater Circassia, which would embrace Kabarda, Circassia, Adyghea, Abkhazia, and the lands claimed by the Abazin and the Shapsug.
		The federal authorities have been resisting both processes, as any change of existing borders would inevitably open a Pandora’s box.
	www.carnegie.ru /en/pubs/books/volume/56873.htm (10645 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies
		The Abkhazians (there are about 100 thousands of them nowadays) speak one of the Abkhazo-Adyghe languages.
		Together with other kindred peoples living in the Western Caucasus (the Abazins, Adyghes, Kabardins, Cherkesses, Shapsugs and others) they identify themselves with the North Caucasian ethnic and cultural community.
		At the same time, their homeland on the south littoral slopes of the Caucasian range gave them a wider access to Asia Minor and the Mediterranean civilizations.
	www.ca-c.org /journal/eng-02-2001/14.kryprimen.shtml (554 words)

	MINELREL-L Archive (11142000-15:13:18-14146)
		These concerns have now been echoed by other republics in the North Caucasus which claim the decision could set a dangerous precedent for would-be breakaway groups.
		The threat is particularly actual in Karachaevo-Cherkessia, where the Cherkess, the Abazins and the Nogai minorities are chafing against President Vladimir Semenov's Karachai-dominated government.
		Here, there has been talk of creating an independent republic of Cherkessia, which would unite all the Adygean peoples in the region and enjoy the support of ethnic cousins in Adygea and Kabardino-Balkaria.
	www.minelres.lv /minelres/archive/11142000-15:13:18-14146.html (1674 words)

	News Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They also addressed an appeal to the Russian government to declare invalid the results of the 16 May presidential runoff in the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia.
		The Abkhaz are ethnically close to the Cherkess and Abazins, who constitute approximately 10 percent of that republic's total population.
		Abkhaz President Vladislav Ardzinba has called on the Karachaevo-Cherkessia authorities to take measures to preserve stability, while Ingush President Ruslan Aushev has called for legal action against anyone who advocates a violent solution to the standoff.
	www.b-info.com /tools/miva/newsview.mv?url=places/Bulgaria/news/99-05/may24.rfe (2651 words)

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