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 ...

The Cossack people are ethnic Russians with a distinct language and culture (not quite Russian) and strong ties to the Russian Orthodox Church. There are about seven million Cossacks in Russia, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) A senior official in Russia's southern Rostov region says Cossack patrols in this World Cup city will ''display their military skills'' and not replace the role of police.

Nikolai Kozitsyn, chief of the Great Host of Don Cossacks, comes rushing into his second-story office in downtown Novocherkassk, apologizing for the informality of his navy blue sweat pants and ...

Nikolai Kozitsyn, chief of the Great Host of Don Cossacks, comes rushing into his second-story office in downtown Novocherkassk, apologizing for the informality of his navy blue sweat pants and ...

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 ...