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The IX "Abaza" cultural and sports festival was held in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic from July 21 to 23. This year it included the Games of the Abaza people, Culture Day, as well as a round table on the development of the Abkhaz and Abaza languages in preschool education.
The WAC took part in events dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Caucasian War.
On November 23 in St. Petersburg, at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), a seminar was held by the Caucasus Department of the MAE RAS “Caucasus: a crossroads of cultures”.
The Congress presented national Abkhazian games and films based on the WAC project “Amazara” on “Abkhazian song” and “Ancient Abkhazian armor” at the festival.
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the WAC Mussa Ekzekov received the first dan in the combat discipline Aikibujutsu Gendaikan.
A documentary film by a journalist, head of the WAC Coordinating Council of Women of Abkhazia Ekaterina Bebia is dedicated to the editor-in-chief of the “Abazashta” newspaper, Honored Journalist of the KChR, member of the Union of Journalists of Abkhazia, holder of the III degree Order of Akhdz-Apsha Fardaus Kulova.
The Abaza cultural and sports festival came to its end in Karachay-Cherkessia. It included the Forum of Indigenous Peoples of Russia, the Games of the Abaza People, the Day of Culture of the Abaza People and the Day of the State Flag of Abkhazia. The festival was organized by the international association for promotion of development of the Abaza-Abkhaz ethnic group "Alashara".
Traditional Games of Abaza people were held on July 22 in the village of Psyzh, Abaza district of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
The annual cultural and sports festival "Abaza" will be held on July 22 and 23. The festival is regularly organized by the International Association for Promotion of the Development of the Abaza-Abkhaz Ethnos "Alashara".
WAC information portal prepared an essay on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the people's poet of Karachay-Cherkessia, writer and translator.