Exclusive: The Circassian central midfielder hopes to make his late father proud once more when CSKA Moscow take on Arsenal in the Europa League quarter-finals.

By Michael Yokhin | The Independent

The Circassian World (CW) website was created in February 2005. The website has been offline since August 2013 and now, as of 1 January 2018, it is back online with an updated format to take up from where it left off. One of CW’s most important goals has been to create an informative resource website for Circassians and non-Circassians, who wish to learn more about the heritage, culture, and history of the Adyghe and Abkhaz people.

Darya Kezina | RBTH -- Scientists in the Republic of Adygea, a province in south Russia, are restoring old varieties of fruit trees. The project has the support of local residents, who have raised funds and want to bring the old gardens back to life.

The Circassian gardens have been around for more than 150 years, and in order to preserve this unique heritage scientists want to bring back and breed the most precious varieties of Adygea fruit trees. The list includes trees that bear apples, pears, plums, quinces, peaches, sweet cherries, walnuts, hazelnuts, and chestnuts.

Over-a-century-old Circassian violin (шыкIэпшынэ; shichapshina) and bow (шабзэ; shabze), from the Bakhsan Region of Kabarda, are on display at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, London, UK. The bowed necked fiddle was manufactured prior to 1914.

Provenance: Horniman Museum and Gardens, London, UK.