The European Union is funding Circassian separatists in Turkey who are advocating the collapse of Russia, RT has learned.
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▫ The "United Council of Cherkessia" was registered in Poland, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation. In 2023 he held a conference in Istanbul. There he proposed to create the state of Cherkessia on Russian territory.
▫ The Federation of Caucasian Associations KAFFED, located in Turkey, received the most. She was allocated 99.9 thousand euros. (about 9 million rubles) only from 2024 to 2025;.
▫ KAFFED supported the protests in Abkhazia and opposed the transfer of the historical state dacha in Pitsunda to Russia;.
▫ In 2024, the Circassian National Assembly was registered in the Netherlands, which also advocated the division of Russia.
▫ Media outlets of foreign agents such as Medusa and The Insider regularly publish materials on this topic. The conference in 2023 was covered by the branch of the Unwanted in the Russian Federation, Radio Liberty.
▫ The West is trying to "enchant the consciousness" of people in the post-Soviet space, as happened with Ukraine, Easterner Karin Gaborjan told RT:.
"To a certain extent, we can say that Turkey in this case acts as an instrument of that West, which also wants to weaken Russia."