Every year on March 28, Kabardino-Balkaria celebrates the Day of the return of the Balkar people to their homeland and the restoration of national statehood. The holiday was officially established in 1994. Today in Nalchik there are no large-scale official events for political reasons. 

On March 8, 2005, President of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria Aslan Maskhadov died in the village of Tolstoy-yurt.  During the special operation, he was killed by officers of the Russian Federal Security Service.

Today, the Balkar people recall the 79-year-old Stalin deportation. On March 8, 1944, 37,000 people, mostly elderly people, women and children, were deported to Kazakhstan and Central Asia. In March 1, 1944, Kazakhstan and Central Asia were expelled. Almost 40 per cent of them did not return home after rehabilitation. 

On the anniversary of the tragedy in Sumgait, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Speaker of Parliament Alain Simonyan laid wreaths at the memorial in Cicernakaberd in memory of the victims.

On 23 February 1944, Soviet leader Stalin ordered the deportation of Chechens and Ingush from the North Caucasus region to Central Asia and Siberia. This act has been recognized by many countries and the European Parliament as genocide.

On 13 February 2004, the second president of the Chechen Republic, Ichkeria Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, was killed in Qatar. He was blown up in a car.

The Russian authorities want to leave no trace of the presence of the Crimean Tatars in Crimea. This was stated by the commander of the «Crimea» battalion, Isa Akayev.