Soviet Deportations

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A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Soviet Union’s deportation of the Balkars in Nalchik. Image via TASS.

Joseph Stalin

Balkar man seeks to hold Stalin criminally responsible for Soviet deportations

by Luiza Mchedlishvili

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A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria has requested that the Russian authorities investigate Joseph Stalin’s deportation of North Caucasians in the 1940s as a crime. Oleg Kelemetov, a Balkar man from Kabardino-Balkaria, requested that Russia’s Investigative Committee investigate the Soviet Union’s Defence Committee’s deportations of populations as a crime and a violation of the country’s constitution. Kommersant reported that Kelemetov seeks to hold specific senior Soviet officials criminally res

Parliament of Ukraine. Photo: rada.gov.ua

Ingushetia

Ukraine recognises Ingushetia’s right to self-determination

by Luiza Mchedlishvili

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Ukraine’s Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has adopted a resolution recognising the Ingush people’s right to create an independent state and condemning Russia’s mass deportation of the Ingush in 1944. The Verkhovna Rada adopted the resolution on 23 February, the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Chechens and Ingush from their homes in the North Caucasus. The Soviet Union, under the rule of Joseph Stalin, orchestrated the forcible deportation of the entire population of Karachays, Bal