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| | BRİFİNG ODASI - BRIEFING ROOM / Diplomatik Gözlem - Diplomatic Observer |
 | | The regions encompassed by the paper are Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia, and the autonomous republics of Kabardino-Balkar, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia and Checkny, Krasnodar and Stavropol Krays, and the oblasts of Krasnodar and Rostov - a region stretching from the Black Sea to the Caspian. |
 | | It is safe to say that the vote by the population of the Adygea Autonomous Oblast to become the Adygea Soviet Socialist Republic on 1 July 1991 was no surprise to seasoned political observers of the North Caucasian scene, and its conversion to the Republic of Adygea following the collapse of the USSR was inevitable. |
 | | There is also Greater Adygea, which is more a state of mind and includes all the members of the Adygey peoples: the Abaza, the Abkhaz, the Cherkess, the Kabardin, the Mozdok and the Shapsug as well as the smaller tribes of the Abadzekh, Belsen, Bzhedukh, Natkhuadzh and Termigoy. |
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