Putin's challenge

The Ubykh no longer exist in their homeland,but there are around 40,000 living in Turkey and many more families in other countries. The last remaining Ubykh speaker dying was in 1992. They are concerned that in the coming decades, the Circassian culture and identity may be completely destroyed and forgotten. During the 19th century many of the the Circassians fought so weak that the Russians decided to remove them from there land, either by death or deportation. Around 1.5 million Circassian were killed. The President Vladimir Putin gave his speech to the International Olympic Committee in 2007. He described Sochi as a place inhabited by ancient Greeks and does not mention of the Circassians.

The Circassians are also proud of their identity as Muslims and played a  central role in the history of Islam. Those who where able to survive the battles in the mountains were forced into camps on the Black Sea coast. Then where loaded on ships towards Turkey. Adolph Petrovich Berzhe, a Russian scholar said," I shall never forget the overwhelming impression made on me by the mountaineers in Novorossiisk Bay, where about seventeen thousand of them were gathered on the shore. The late, inclement and cold time of year,/ young Circassian woman lying in rags on the damp ground under the open sky with two infants, one struggling in his death-throws while the other sought to assuage his hunger at his dead mother's breast?" This is really sad because most of the children where not only dying of the cold but also because of hunger. The only country who gave them the most rights to Circassians is Israel. They are allowed to preserve "every single aspect of our identity. 

Putin is thinking of  promoting the modern and multiethnic new Russia. If he does continue on his vision is to extend human rights, dignity with full respect for identity, democratic representation and economic opportunities to all citizens. This will be the only way to ensure a progressive, secure and stable Russia. I do not think that it is right for the government to decide whether a group of people should be extinct and be forgotten because everyone comes from different places and those beliefs and ways go being can not be easy to forget.