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Jack Gill

Jack Gill is the Co-Founder and Director of the European Nations and Regions Organization (EUNRO), a think tank in Vienna, Austria. He focuses on the decentralization of power to subnational regions and nations in Europe and preserving Europe’s cultural diversity. He is also an expert on foreign policy and geopolitics in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, and has an MA in Central and East European, Russian and Eurasian Studies from the Universities of Glasgow and Tartu.

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Federation of Caucasian Associations at the 159th anniversary of the Circassian exile in Ankara, Turkey, on May 21, 2023.

The anniversary of Russia's long-forgotten genocide

by Jack Gill
For millions of Europeans, the era of Russian domination over the nations east of the former Iron Curtain remains a vivid, living memory. But while the Kremlin's tide receded across most of Central and Eastern Europe, others remain stuck within Russia's borders, yearning for the freedom of national expression that has yet to materialize. European history is littered with tales of one nation's brutality towards another, but very few nations have experienced what can truly be called a genocide —