On 17 February, 2010 was held a meeting of the State Council of Adygea. This ordinary event suddenly acquired symbolic features owing to an extraordinary speech by Senator Aslan Khashir representing the republic in the Federation Council
At night, Nov. 15, 1944 in southern Georgia, in Meskheti region, started a classified special operation to deport the local Muslim population. From 220 villages were evacuated and moved to the Central Asian republics, according to various sources, from 125 to 144 thousand people