most of those who survived were driven away across the black sea into turkey. a circassian who lives in sochi today has called on russia to acknowledge that the conquest was genocide. that's why the authorities have summoned him several times for preventive talks, as they have many who think like that. >> we want respect also for these places. there are countless graves here. we wish that more archaeologists have been engaged before they built the olympic structures, and now it's too late. >> about 1000 circassians live in a mountain village near sochi. the village school teaches them the language and culture of what the circassians call themselves in their native tongue. today, it is spoken only at home and the family. in russia, it's tolerated but not fostered. >> our village is surrounded by russians, armenians, and people of many other nationalities. russian is the only language we have in common. >> but we are not going to abandon our traditions and our language. >> to prevent the traditions from being lost, children start coming to a weekly cultural group