STAVROPOL, Russia — Outside Stavropol’s police headquarters recently, a priest in a purple velvet hat and gold stole moved from one man to the next, offering a cross to be kissed and drenching their ...

Once prized fighters under the Tsars, Russia’s Cossack population was ostracised by authorities during the Soviet era. Under ...

The word Cossack comes from the Turkic word meaning “free man” or “outlaw.” True to this moniker, Ukraine’s Cossacks — a semi-nomadic militaristic group originating somewhere in the 15th century — are ...

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 ...

As one of the leaders of a resurgence of Russia’s Cossacks reaches out to Jews, some of his tribesmen seem to have missed the message that an era of good feelings is at hand. NOVOCHERKASSK, 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, ...

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 ...

Cossacks install bust near St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown. MOSCOW — -- Vladimir Putin has been described as a “czar” by fans and critics alike, but a group of Cossacks in St. Petersburg have ...

Many of the pro-Russian militants occupying government buildings in eastern Ukraine are being referred to in the media—or at least are referring to themselves—as Cossacks. Between this and the role ...

Cossack patrols have done everything from securing courthouses to forcibly dispersing political protests in the Russian capital since President Vladimir Putin declared in 2012 that it is "the state's ...

The men in military fatigues who charged at protesters in Moscow, thrashing them with leather whips, have apparently been beaten by their comrades-in-arms after an outcry about their actions being ...