In what resembled a new tit-for-tat with Georgia, Russian lawmakers on Monday met with a group of Circassian activists and promised them support. The meeting, which is apparently the first of its kind at such a high level, comes as the Georgian parliament debates recognizing the 19th-century massacre and deportation of Circassians by tsarist Russia as genocide. But Andrei Klimov, who organized the event for the State Duma’s International Affairs Committee, said […]