Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the official symbols of the All—Russian Cossack Society - the coat of arms, ...

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.

They are wrapped in folklore, faith and history, often portrayed as relics of another age: Russia’s Cossacks. Once marginalised and persecuted, they have been drawn back into the centre of state power ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - By tradition, Cossacks protected Russia's borderlands, but on Tuesday descendants of the Tsarist warrior caste patrolled a patch of central Moscow as part of a resurgence encouraged ...

A man heard discussing “spies” aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in a phone call allegedly intercepted just after the jet was shot down is the leader of a band of Russian Cossacks and may be linked ...

MOSCOW, August 12 (Itar-Tass) ——MOSCOW, August 4 (Itar-Tass) — Russian Cossacks are starting a Moscow-Paris cavalry march from Moscow’s Poklonnaya Hill on Sunday, August 12. The Cossacks will repeat ...