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Once prized fighters under the Tsars, Russia’s Cossack population was ostracised by authorities during the Soviet era. Under President Vladimir Putin, they have reintegrated into Russian society, ...

According to Nikolay Doluda, not all Ukrainian troops have been trained to use Western-supplied armaments KRASNODAR, August 26. /TASS/. Western instructors are directly involved in military operations ...

Pussy Riot, the Russian punk band that promised to take advantage of the world spotlight on the Sochi Olympics to protest Vladimir Putin’s government, has managed to stay in the headlines over the ...

The contrast couldn't have been greater: the protest band Pussy Riot in colorful ski masks and mini dresses, attempting to film a segment for a new video on Sochi's waterfront; and Cossacks in ...