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Syria's Circassians "Seek Return" to Russia
(RIA Novosti-Russia) Marc Bennetts - Large numbers of Syria's Circassian community are seeking a return to their traditional homeland in Russia's North Caucasus as fighting in Syria intensifies, Russian Federation Council senator Albert Kazharov said on Monday. Over 100 members of Syria's Circassian community sent an appeal to Russian President Medvedev in December asking to be repatriated, Russian media reported. Circassians were exiled en masse from their North Caucasus homeland to the Ottoman Empire by Tsarist Russian forces in the 19th century.