Circassian villager and former Soviet army correspondent and writer Madin Chachukh walks down the main road in the village of Tkhagapsh in the Lazerevskoye district of Sochi on Oct. 26. "As every small nation, the biggest threat we face today, is the loss of our language and subsequently our culture. There are only very few of us left, too few. We wish the government gave us money to help us preserve our language. Its loss would be a tragedy. I fear it will eventually happen, but we have to slow down this process" Chachukh said. Tkhagapsh is one of the few remaining settlements in the Sochi region, that mainly consists of ethnic Circassians. #