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The
public organization of Jordan "Friends of Caucasian Adygs" has voiced
against the so-called "Circasiad-2012", having explained it by the fact
that the initiators of the project represent it as an event planned
within the programme of the Olympiad-2014 in Sochi.
The "Caucasian Knot"
has reported that the Organizing Committee of Sochi Olympiad suggested
including the idea of the World Circassian Games ("Circasiad-2012") as
a component of one of the programmes of "Sochi-2014". This initiative
was a response to the address of the authors of the project
"Circasiad-2012" to Dmitri Chernyshenko, President of the Organizing
Committee "Sochi-2014".
The authors of the "Circasiad" - Sufian Zhemukhov, chairman of the
historical commission of the Coordination Board of Adyg NGOs of
Kabardino-Balkaria, and Alexei Bekshokov, chairman of the Union of
Abkhazian Volunteers of Kabardino-Balkaria, - named the offer of the
Organizing Committee "Sochi-2014" to be "a positive step in realization
of the project."
Within a series of presentations of the project, Sufian Zhemukhov
and Alexei Bekshokov have already held six presentations of the
"Circasiad" in Russian cities, including St Petersburg, Moscow and
Sochi, and abroad - in the USA (State of New Jersey), in Turkey
(Ankara) and in Jordan (Amman).
During the presentation in Jordan, held in the building of the Youth
Khasse of the Kingdom, Rukhi Shkhaltukh, chairman of the "Friends of
Caucasian Adygs", said that his organization is against any
undertakings connected with the Sochi Olympiad, as the IA "Natpress"
reports.
"We can't support what offends the memory of those who sacrificed
their lives for the independence of our homeland, or those who try to
justify the intention to hold Games on bones of these heroes," the
"Caucasus Online" quotes Mr Shkhaltukh as saying.
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