The Kurds in the Former Soviet States from the Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Khanna Omarkhali
in The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies. International Relations. Theory and Practice, 2(4), Piechowiak-Lamparska
J., Férez Gil, M. (eds.), Toruń, Dom Wydawniczy DUET, 2013, pp. 128–142. ISSN 2299-4335
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The history of the Kurdish community in Russia concerns several centuries. The Kurds who live in the today’s Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), before USSR, constitue about 2,5% of all Kurdish population, which is the most important part of the Kurdish Diaspora. The number of Kurds has increased in the Russian Federation especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the Kurds began to leave Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Central Asia and began to settle in the Russian Federation. This is a brief study of the Kurds in the former Soviet Union with the study of the demography of the Kurds and their development from historical and cultural perspectives. Special attention is paid to the contemporary situation of the Kurds in the post-Soviet states, in particular on the territory of the Russian Federation.