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The Russian, Ottoman, English, and Tiblissi archives all talk about the 101 year Russia-Circassia War, the Circassian Genocide and the subsequent exile of the remaining 90% of the Indigenous Circassians from Circassia (now the Northwest Caucasus Mountains in Russia)
A large plant with a height of more than one and a half (sometimes up to four) meters with huge dissected leaves reaching a length of up to one and a half to two meters was first described by botanists back in 1944 in the vicinity of Nalchik. It was found mainly in the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and the middle East.
In the Soviet Union, borscht was cultivated, it was believed that this stuff can be perfectly fed to cows. It was sown along roads as an ornamental plant. However, the animals were reluctant to eat it. It was toxic in itself. From contact with the plant, blisters appear on the body, and this can happen after a few hours, or even after a few days. Photochemical reaction (on UV).
Kabardino-Balkaria (Russian: Кабарди́но-Балка́рия), officially the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 904,200. Its capital is Nalchik. The area contains the highest mountain in Europe, Mount Elbrus, at 5,642 m (18,510 ft). Mount Elbrus has 22 glaciers that feed three rivers — Baksan, Malka and Kuban. The mountain is covered with snow year-round.
It is known that modern-day Circassians also called Kassogs were inhabiting Kabardino Balkaria since at least the 6th century BCE, then known as Zichia. On 1 July 1994 Kabardino-Balkaria became the second republic after Tatarstan to sign a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy.
Light In Shadows - Alexander Litvinenko (1962 - 2006) by Daniel Arrhakis (2020)
Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (1962 - 2006) was born in the Russian city of Voronezh in 1962.
After he graduated from a Nalchik secondary school in 1980, he was drafted into the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a Private. After a year of service, he matriculated in the Kirov Higher Command School in Vladikavkaz.
In 1986, he became an informant when he was recruited by the MVD's KGB counterintelligence section and in 1988. Later that year, after studying for a year at the Novosibirsk Military Counter Intelligence School, he became an operational officer and served in KGB military counterintelligence until 1991.
In November 1998, Litvinenko and several other FSB officers publicly accused their superiors of ordering the assassination of the Russian tycoon and oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Litvinenko was arrested the following March on charges of exceeding the authority of his position. He was acquitted in November 1999 but re-arrested before the charges were again dismissed in 2000.
He fled with his family to London and was granted asylum in the United Kingdom, where he worked as a journalist, writer and consultant for the British intelligence services and became a fierce critic of the Kremlin and the Putin regime. In his final years he also became a British citizen.
On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalised in what was established as a case of poisoning by radioactive polonium-210, believed to have been administered in a cup of tea.
During a interview on 11 November to BBc Litvinenko said he had been looking into the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who had received death threats before being shot at her Moscow apartment block the previous month.
He died from the poisoning on 23 November and became the first known victim of lethal polonium 210-induced acute radiation syndrome.
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