Rift Emerges Within Pro-Moscow Circassian Organization

For the past 24 years, the International Circassian Association (MChA), which has its headquarters in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR), has sought to function as a bridge between the Circassian population of the North Caucasus and the far larger diaspora comprising the descendants of Circassians expelled from their historic homeland during the brutal 19th-century tsarist wars of conquest.