"Circassian congress" declares again about disagreement  with fixing of monument to Nikolay Miracle-maker in Adygeya 

"Circassian congress" of Adygeya sent on January 16th a letter to Adygeya president Khazret Sovmen. In the letter it was stated protest in occasion of fixing of the monument devoted to Saint Nikolay Miracle-maker in Adygeya. IА REGNUM correspondent reported about it referring to the vice-president of the organization who had handed over today the letter in the reception of the president administration.

In the letter, in particular, it was spoken: "on January 11th, 2006 mass-media of Adygeya Republic published information concerned that at the meeting of Adygeya president with the public in the air of consensus they made decision on fixing of the monument to Nikolay Miracle-maker in Maykop on the territory of a military unit. However in this decision’s development Adygeya republican public movement "Circassian congress" had not taken part. Meanwhile, last summer on the protest of Adygeyan intelligency and the public as a whole against fixing of the monument Adygeya republican public movement "Circassian congress" responded one of the first. The organization organized a picket at the initial site for the monument on Victory Square.

Since then participants of Adygeya republican public movement "Circassian congress" did not change their position.

1) The Monument to Nikolay Miracle-maker cannot have any attitude to the basic religious faiths of Russian Federation as even orthodox Christians consider construction of similar monuments idolatry.

2) In Islam any image of man, including sculptural, is a sin. It is absolutely unacceptable for Moslems that Nikolay Miracle-maker’s figure represents a cross.

3) Public of Adygeya considers the monument a symbol of the colonial conquest of Caucasus executed by the Russian empire in the XIX century. A proof for that: in the basis of the monument poured out with concrete the Maltese cross which form has similar contours to the award "For conquest of Caucasus".

"These are only main reasons, - it is spoken further in the document, - which can be resulted against fixing of this monument in Maykop or in Adygeya". Participants Adygeya republican public movement "Circassian congress" expressed their readiness to state the reasons and to make offers at a personal meeting with the president of republic Khazret Sovmen.

IА REGNUM