Later on, when the Russian Empire ruled the area now known as Ukraine, Cossacks served as mercenaries in imperial wars. And in the turmoil that marked the turn of the 20th century in Russia ...

Cossacks were known as servants of the state or, in Russian - Sluzhilyye Lyudi. These servants of the state played a key role in Siberian settlement by Russians. The Cossacks, a translation of the ...

The Cossacks embody ideals of freedom ... into a nation-building myth that helped split the monolith of Russian imperial identity and laid the foundations for the rise of the modern Ukrainian ...

CHITA, March 30, /ITAR-TASS/. For the first time since the October Revolution a member of regional government was elected as ataman, a military chief of Cossacks in southern Siberia’s republic ...

Prior reports said nine Cossack units from the All-Russian Cossack Society had volunteered to join Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine. Cossack militias are also fighting alongside ...