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| | Wide Angle. Beslan: Siege of School No. 1. Interactive Map PBS |
 | | This is because in 1944 Stalin accused the Balkars (along with the Ingush, Chechens and various other groups) of collaborating with the Nazis and deported the entire population, subsequently removing the territory's name from the republic's title, renaming the republic "Kabardin ASSR". | | | In 1992 the Balkars voted for secession and while their 1996 proclamation that Balkaria is its own Republic fell on deaf ears, war-ravaged Chechnya (where people no doubt understand the struggles experienced by an underdog republic fighting for its freedom) supported them. | | | This move helped assure the people that federal compensation would be made to the families of those Balkar people who suffered during the deportment. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/beslan/map_kab.html
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| | Institute for War and Peace Reporting |
| | Hundreds of people from the Balkar ethnic minority defied a security crackdown at the weekend to hold a rally in Nalchik, the capital of the North Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, in protest at what they describe as persistent discrimination by the authorities. | | | No one has been arrested for his murder but many Balkars immediately said they thought it was a political assassination. | | | This would restore to the Balkars two regions that they lost after the Stalinist deportations of 1944. |
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http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/cau/cau_200506_289_2_eng.txt
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| | In 1944, the entire Balkar population was accused of collaborating with the Nazis and deported overnight to Central Asia. | | | Balkar leaders claim the Nalchik authorities are deliberately driving them from their ethnic homeland | | | Activists claim the Kabardinian leadership is actively driving the Balkars from their ethnic homeland and barring them from the corridors of power. |
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http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/cau/cau_200103_74_04_eng.txt
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| | One pivotal demand was the complete rehabilitation of all Karachai and Balkars who had been deported by Stalin and had yet to return to their ethnic homeland. | | | In 1944, both the Karachai and the Balkars were accused of collaborating with the Nazis and were deported en masse to Central Asia. | | | The Balkars and the Karachai have the highest death rate of any ethnic group in the Russian Federation as well as the highest figures for unemployment. |
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http://www.iwpr.net/archive/cau/cau_200101_65_03_eng.txt
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| | WHO IS BEHIND YARMUK JAMAAT: BALKARS OR KABARDINS? - Eurasia Daily Monitor |
| | The Balkar had been deported to Kazakhstan along with Chechens under Stalin, and the new war rekindled appalling memories. | | | The rebels accused the authorities of attempting to foment ethnic conflict. | | | "Your attempts to inspire ethnic conflict in Kabardino-Balkaria are useless as well as your attempts to represent our Jamaat as a monoethnic organization." The statement went to say, "The Kabardin and the Balkar are two fraternal Muslim nations with many family ties" (kavkazweb.net, September 28, 2004). |
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http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2369185
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| | They argue that allegations of Nazi collaboration are "a stain on the honour of the Balkar people" which later made them outcasts in their own society. | | | In a bid to rally their ethnic kin in Kabardino-Balkaria, the Balkar nationalists have found that tales of past injustice are often more persuasive than promises of a better future. | | | According to reports sent by the NKVD - the forerunners of the KGB - to police chief Lavrenty Beria in Moscow, the so-called deserters were largely ethnic Balkars who took refuge in settlements across the Caucasian foothills. |
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http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/cau/cau_200104_78_04_eng.txt
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Both the Karachais and the Balkars were exonerated in 1956 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev of the charge of collaborating with Nazi Germany and allowed to return to the North Caucasus the following year. | | | He presumably had in mind the Balkar villagers who launched the protest two months earlier and who at that time voted no confidence in Alan, which they perceived as colluding with the KBR leadership, according to adygeanatpress.net on 30 May. | | | Both campaigns were unsuccessful, and the suppression of the second was accompanied by mass arrests and reprisals. |
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http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/08/C64A178F-FD88-4DC4-A2D1-69E2F98A40C4.html
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| | The killed gunmen were ethnic Balkars and Wahhabis, followers of the austere brand of Islam, which ideologically unites the extremist anti-Russian underground networks in the Northern Caucasus, the regional news agency Kavkazsky Uzel reported on Thursday, citing unnamed officials in Kabardino-Balkaria’s Interior Ministry. | | | Unlike their neighbors, the Kabardins, who control most of key government positions in the republic, the Balkars had been deported, along with the Chechens, from their native home to Kazakhstan by Joseph Stalin in 1943. | | | The Interior Ministry said that it had identified the two slain gunmen, but refused to disclose their names. |
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| | The Jamestown Foundation |
| | In the consciousness of both peoples, there is a deep-seated opinion, which has been expressed on numerous occasions by their leaders, that the consequences of this deportation have not yet been overcome completely. | | | The situation was exacerbated when Stalin deported the Balkars and Karachais in 1944, together with the Chechens and Ingush. | | | The largest Karachai organization, "Alan," even charged that such an alliance violates the Russian constitution. |
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http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=5&issue_id=280&article_id=3173
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| | Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Separatism, resistance to Soviet rule and collaboration with the invading Germans were cited as the main official reasons for the deportations. | | | Large numbers of Kulaks, regardless of their nationality, were resettled to Siberia and Central Asia. | | | The following ethnic groups were deported completely or partially: Poles, Koreans, Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Karachays, Meskhetian Turks, Finns, Bulgarians, Greeks, Armenians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians. |
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| | Like the Chechens and Ingush, the Karachais and Balkars were both deported en masse to Central Asia in 1943 and 1944 on suspicion of having collaborated with the Nazi German forces that occupied the Karachai Autonomous Oblast in August 1942 and Nalchik in October of that year. | | | The Balkar national party Tere was banned and some of its leaders brought to trial; others were bought off with the offer of influential government posts. | | | Many other Balkar national organizations were also forced to close. |
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http://www.rferl.org/reports/caucasus-report/2005/06/18-060605.asp
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| | CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies |
| | After liberation of the Northern Caucasus from the Nazi aggressors, the Balkars were deported in 1944 under the campaign to stamp out anti-Soviet banditry and terrorism. | | | During the German occupation of Nalchik, the republic’s capital, the Representative Agency of Kabardino-Balkar Interests was created, which formed the “national legion.” Plans were drawn up to separate Balkaria from Kabarda and unite it with Karachai under the protectorate of Turkey. | | | In 1956-1957, a decision was adopted to repatriate the Balkars (35,274 people returned) and restore the Kabardino-Balkarian A.S.S.R. According to the data for 1989, 70,793 Balkars lived in the republic (9% of the population). |
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http://www.ca-c.org/journal/eng-01-2001/18.skakove.shtml
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| | ISN Security Watch - Repression, resentment fuel violence in Russia |
| | Then, in 1943, the Balkars were deported by Joseph Stalin because of Soviet suspicions that some of its representatives wanted to collaborate with the Nazi German troops. | | | Local law-enforcers claim to have killed seven members of Yarmuk and uncovered several of its weapons caches since the beginning of this year, but the group continues to find recruits in the republic, where resentment runs high. | | | Among other things, insurgent recruiters take advantage of the Balkarsâ historic grievances against Russian rule, given the conquest of their lands by the Russian empire in the 19th century and the forced separation from their Turkic-language âcousinsâ when the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria was formed in 1922 with the Balkars as a minority. |
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http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=13142
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| | Karachay Balkar Explorer |
| | The name “Balkar” is known to all the neighboring peoples, coming to the Russian documents of the beginning of XVII century from them. | | | But, as the documents tell, “the beauty of Archil and his courage made such an impression on the wife of Kulchuk, that she supplied him the means of escape one night, and he ran to Basian, and his people went to Digoria”. | | | This document confirms the old kinship relations of Balkarians, Karachais and Kabardins: Pshimakho’s sister was married to a Balkarian leader. |
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http://karachaymalkar.bravehost.com/historyofkarachay.html
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| | Kabardino-Balkaria |
| | In 1944 Stalin accused the Balkars of collaborating with Nazi Germany and deported the entire population. | | | Population: 715 000 including 304 000 Kabardin 60 000 Balkars and 234 000 Russians. | | | Kabardino-Balkaria consists of two ethnic territories one of Kabardin (speakers of a Caucasian language) and the other predominantly Balkar (speakers a Turkic language). |
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| | In 1944 the Balkars, like certain other North Caucasus groups, were deported to Central Asia because of their alleged collaboration with the Nazis, and the region was renamed the Kabardin Autonomous Oblast. | | | Like the Chechens and the Ingush, the Karachay were exiled to Central Asia during World War II. | | | Despite Russian immigration into the republic, the Muslim Kabardins and Balkars now constitute nearly 60 percent of the republic's population, which was estimated at 800,000 in 1995. |
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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Kabardino-Balkar Republic@ HighBeam Research |
| | In 1943 the Balkars, accused of collaborating with the Germans, were deported, and their area, the upper Baksan valley, was ceded to the Georgian SSR. | | | The Kabards speak a Caucasian language and are Muslims (Sunni); the Balkars speak a Turkic language. | | | Kabardino- Balkar Deputy InteriorMinister Magazazh Endreyev told Itar-Tass... |
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| | CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies |
| | There are people who believe that this ethnic name was derived from the name of Karchi, a legendary ancestor of the ethnic group. | | | I am convinced that the Karachais and Balkars living on the northern slopes of the Caucasian Range and speaking a Turkic language hold a special place among other local ethnic groups. | | | They, and even their neighbors Karachais, used the name Tauli (Taulu, Taulula) meaning “mountain people.” There were groups of Balkars that used other names to describe themselves (Malk’arlyla, Byzyngychyla, Kholamlyla, Chegemlyla, Urusnalyla, Bak’sanchyla, etc.). |
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| | TheStar.com - Fears of all-out war in north Caucasus grow |
| | Yarmuk, an alleged extremist Islamic group that spearheaded the attacks in Nalchik, consists predominantly of ethnic Balkars. | | | The scar tissue from Russia's 19th-century wars of conquest and early Soviet manipulation of political borders was torn open during Stalin's forced deportations of entire peoples during World War II, supposedly to prevent collaboration with the advancing Nazis. | | | The Chechens, Ingushetians, and Balkars — but not the Kabardinians —were driven out to Central Asia; these groups were not permitted to return until the late 1950s. |
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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1129585810838&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795
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| | Who Are Alans |
| | After deportation of Karachais and Balkars from Caucasus, the basically Türkic Nartovian epos that become common for them during the long centuries of Karachais-Balkars coexistence with Ossetians, was declared to be solely Ossetian, and on this ground the Ossetians were identified with Alans. | | | However, there is no doubt, that not Balkars, who came to the present place rather late, but the Ossetians were Yases of our annals, but the name was attached to the district and has remained, despite of the change in the population. | | | Assuming that Balkars and Karachais should certainly be immigrants, and the Ossetians are aborigens, he writes: ‘Balkars (an immigrant tribe), purged Ossetians from these places, they (i.e. |
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| | Meanwhile, the Regnum news agency reported that a group of Moscow-based human rights activists traveled to Kabardino-Balkaria in response to reports that the rights of ethnic Balkars in the republic were being violated. | | | The human rights activists reported that Elbrus district residents were frightened, given that security sweeps were carried out there in June and July. | | | One of the visiting activists, For Human Rights movement chairman Lev Ponomarev, told residents of the republican capital, |
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| | Even after they were eventually allowed in 1957 to return to their homeland, following Khrushchev's condemnation of Stalin's actions at the 20th Communist Party Congress in 1956, human suffering and grievances caused by the deportations has never healed. | | | They were accused by Stalin of collaboration with the invading German Nazi Armies and for this reason first the Karachays in November 1943 and Balkars in March 1944 were deported, along with the Chechens, Ingush, Volga Germans, Meskhetians, Kalymuks and the Crieman Tartars, to the steppes of Central Asia. | | | Rather, the Karachay and the Balkars pressed to create their national units separately within the Russian Federation. |
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| | The sums stood at 8,000 roubles for each person who had been deported or born in the deportation period. | | | The other Caucasus nations who were expelled in the period, that is the Karachayevs, Kalmyks, Ingush, and Balkars... | | | The other Caucasus nations who were expelled in the period, that is the Karachayevs, Kalmyks, Ingush, and Balkars, received compensations in 1993-4. |
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| | "During the war the Soviets committed genocide against at least nine of their distinct ethnic- linguistic sub-nations, including ethnic Germans, ethnic Greeks, Crimean Tatars, and Balkars." [1] | | | The death of 5 million to 8 million people in Ukraine during famines of 1932 -- 1933 is attributed to intentional non-providing the relief and blocking the migration of starving population by the Soviet government. | | | The disputed Soviet genocide of millions of civilians before and during World War II was designed to eliminate domestic opposition to the Soviet Union. |
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| | GeoNative - Kabardino-Balkaria - Qeberdej - Malqar |
| | The Kabardians are of the same ethnic group ( | | | Some of them collaborated with German Nazi occupiers in World War II, and were subsequently punished (unlike the Kabardians) as a whole people by Stalin, deported from 1944 to 1954 in Asian. | | | Ethnic groups: native kabardians (347,000) and balkars (68,000). |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports The Caucasian vicious circle |
| | In 1944 Stalin deported 1.5 million people from the North Caucasus and Crimea, forcibly resettling them in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia and Siberia. | | | Noticeably missing from the list were the Ossetians, who were allowed to take part of the land - Prigorodny region, near the regional capital, Vladikavkaz - that the Ingush had been forced to leave behind. | | | Chechens, Ingush, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Balkars, Karachai and Meskhetians were all loaded into cattle trucks and thousands died in transit in midwinter. |
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| | The Balkars were allowed to return home in the late 1950s by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. | | | The other thing that makes the Balkars inordinately proud is their food. | | | Friendly Zukhra Mamayeva has been saleswoman here for 27 years. |
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| | Ethnicity in the Caucasus: Ethnic Relations and Quasi-Ethnic Conflicts |
| | There was a rather noisy Balkar nationalist movement headed by retired General Beppaev, who insisted on the creation of a new Balkarian state separate from Kabardinia. | | | Balkars were also exiled to Central Asia from 1944-57, although most returned after 1957 and were settled in territories that stretched beyond their original tribal homelands. | | | This sense of grievances is reinforced by Kabardin stereotypes of Balkars as stubborn and stupid. |
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| | Most Balkars, however, cannot read in their mother tongue, and there is also some mistrust of the new literature, since it had to be manufactured and sent in by foreigners. | | | There’s a huge "market" for recordings such as these, not only with the 70,000 Balkars, but with groups of over 200,000 in a neighboring republic who speak the same language. | | | Now, as the Lord is moving ancient cultures to seek Him again, new editions of Bibles and Christian books have been printed and imported. |
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| | Balkars Vote to Form Republic |
| | Forced into a republic with the Kabardins in 1922, the Balkars were then exiled by Stalin in 1944. | | | The Turkic-speaking, mountain-dwelling Balkars only represent some 10 percent of the population of Kabardino-Balkaria and differ widely from the more numerous Kabardins, who make up 40 percent of the population. | | | Kabardins took over their land and homes and never returned them, even when the Balkars returned in 1958. |
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| | Caucasus Foundation |
| | The Balkar Nation was exiled from Caucasus during the period of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. | | | President of Kabardino-Balkaria Valery Kokov had decreed the 28th of March as The Day of Rebirth of Balkar Nation. | | | Supreme Soviet's 1957 decision to re-establish The Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria has ended 13 years of exile in Siberia and Kazakstan. |
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| | According to Vexillologie 116 [vex], this is the flag of Balkar National Council and of the self-proclaimed Balkar Republic. | | | Balkars, by the way, call themselves "Malkar", so this is not a local language issue. | | | This national flag was adopted by 3rd session of 1st Congress of Balkarian people on 19, June, 1993. |
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| | Association of kabardinians and balkars "Mingi tau" |
| | - revival of pages of history of Kabardinian and Balkar nations and promotion of growing national self-consciousness; | | | - revival of language, national culture, customs and traditions of Kabardinian and Balkar nations, upbringing youth in accordance with national traditions; |
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| | balkars email (spam-free!) and website community |
| | Disclaimer: This site has no affiliation with any legal entity or individual claiming intellectual property rights in the string "balkars". | | | In fact, the only reason this page even contains references to balkars, is because you entered balkars into your web browser. | | | It can be used for anything: the balkars surname, the balkars family, the balkars fan club, the balkars alumni group, balkars genealogy, or any other community or group about balkars. |
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| | From the standpoint of the Bulgar-Chuvash theory it would be possible to explain it like this: their common ancestors Proto Bulgars were "Chuvash speaking", and Kazan Tatars' and Balkars' languages would became alike under the influence of arriving later Kipchaks. | | | That Kazan Tatars' and Balkars' languages so are close to each other is obviously because of the common historical roots ascending to the Oguzo Kipchak language of Proto Bulgars. | | | the separation of common ancestors into three groups, Balkars and Kazan Tatars had no territorial or economic connections. |
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http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=64595&messageid=1110656064&lp=1111524873
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| | Soviet regime resettled the Balkars, Karachays, Chechens, and Ingushes, and in 1944–5 it abolished their autonomous territories. | | | In 1921–2 the Gorskaia ASSR was formed within the Russian SFSR, but it was divided eventually into a number of autonomous republics and oblasts. |
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| | En 1944, Stalin acusa el Balkars de Kabardino-Balkaria de la colaboración con Alemania nazi y deportó a población entera. | | | El territorio fue retitulado el Kabardin ASSR hasta 1957, cuando se permitió a la población de Balkar volver y su nombre fue restaurado. | | | English version: Balkars Next: Zona De la Bola de fuego Up |
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