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 ...

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.

up for inspection by blue camouflage-clad ‘Berkut’ riot police, a force formally disbanded by the central powers in Kiev. The Berkut, blamed for the deaths of most of the 100 people killed in the Kiev ...

Men kissing each other in public will be reported to police at one of Russia's cities that will host the World Cup, an ultra-conservative group has warned. The world's premier international soccer ...

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 ...

From a Russian correspondent of the London Times last week came this typically Russian account of scorched-earth tactics in the Cossack country. It is a sultry, stifling day. A burning haze hovers ...

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CHONGAR, Ukraine (Reuters) - Cossack militia from Russia, disbanded Ukrainian riot police and other unidentified armed men stood guard on Sunday at a token border post on one of the two land links ...