September 9, 2018: Russia is again having problems with the Cossacks and it has become a real back-to-the future moment. Despite 70 years of efforts by the communists to destroy the Cossack community, ...

September 17, 2010: The Cossacks are back, once again coming to prominence in Russia's military affairs. The Cossack people are ethnic Russians with a distinct language and culture (not Russian) and ...

The widely distributed video of a beating incident, which left three Pussy Riot band members hospitalized, has raised questions about the role of the Cossack militia in Russia. At least 10 Cossack ...

In brief: Artist Ilya Repin glorified his native Ukraine and its Cossack legacy in his paintings. All the same, many art historians still mistakenly believe him to be Russian. Ilya Repin has long been ...

Russian Cossack groups are building ties with Serbs in the Balkans. But are they just promoting Russia, or finding fighters for it too? A few days before the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia on ...

In their tall, fur hats and embellished traditional jackets, hundreds of Cossacks are patrolling the streets of Sochi, Russia, as the 2014 Winter Olympic Games approach. These Russian soldiers, whose ...

Recent events in Ukraine and Russia have put back in the headlines some terms with ugly resonances for Jews, but their contemporary meanings are often more complex than we realize. For many Ashkenazi ...

Grozny today bets on the promotion of the Kazačestvo movement - Russia's Cossacks - to revive mobilisation for war and to counter drug trafficking. A bet on yesterday's enemies that the Kremlin has ...

BUENA VISTA – Dozens were on hand Sunday to celebrate local Cossack history and culture at the 28th annual New Kuban Historical Museum Labor Day fundraiser barbeque. Located on a rural street just off ...

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