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March 22, 2025: Desperate to find more justifications for its war in Ukraine, Russia has turned to its small surviving Cossack community to inspire military age Russian men to serve in the military.

A painting of Ukrainian Cossacks raucously defying a hostile foreign power in the 17th century has taken on new relevance amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, sparking a trend of Ukrainian soldiers ...

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 ...

Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the group tried to perform under a sign advertising the Sochi Olympics. One Cossack appeared to use pepper spray, ...

KHORTYTSIA, Ukraine — This lush, wild island, the largest on the Dnipro River, is just outside the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, not far from the front line where Ukrainian soldiers are trying to ...

SOLEDAR /DPR/, August 16. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops are worn out in the Soledar direction and they have been mostly simulating attacks there, an officer of the Cossack volunteer battalion "S.K.I.F." in ...

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 ...