BUDVA, Montenegro -- When the commander of the newly created "Balkan Cossack Army" addressed his officers last month, he needed a translator. Self-styled Cossack General Viktor Zaplatin, a Russian, ...

In the summer of 1651, two immense armies faced each other near Berestechko in a struggle over Ukraine’s borderlands between ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the official symbols of the All—Russian Cossack Society - the coat of arms, banner and flag. This was announced on April 17 by a correspondent of Izvestia ...

As was reported earlier, nine voluntary Cossack units of the All-Russian Cossack Society are taking part in Russia’s special military operation on Ukrainian territory KRASNODAR, August 26. /TASS/.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian paramilitary units providing security for the soccer World Cup included among their members Cossack fighters who took part in clandestine campaigns in Ukraine and Syria. At ...

During Tsarist times, Cossacks formed special cavalry units in the Imperial Russian Army, as well serving as instruments of state repression. The Russian Empire had a special arrangement with the ...

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, ...

Today’s Cossacks are a far cry from their Czarist-era ancestors, the fierce horsemen with woollen papakha hats, sabres and horsewhips, best known as a buffer force on the borders of the Russian Empire ...

BUDVA, Montenegro -- When the commander of the newly created "Balkan Cossack Army" addressed his officers last month, he needed a translator. Self-styled Cossack General Viktor Zaplatin, a Russian, ...