Aleksandr Agafonov worked in a local church and co-founded a Cossack community in Russia’s northern naval city of Severomorsk. He is among a growing number of members of Russia’s resurgent Cossack ...
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine -- Rebel fighters, many of them Cossacks, roamed the streets of Debaltseve on Thursday, a day after Ukrainian forces began withdrawing from the besieged town. The mood was ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word Cossack comes from the Turkic word meaning “free man” or “outlaw.” True to this moniker, Ukraine’s Cossacks — a ...
The young Cossack fighter gripped his automatic rifle as he swore he would defend the town of Perevalsk in war-torn east Ukraine that he and his comrades now control. "We're expecting an attack. We're ...
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 ...
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Why Russia wanted Siberia — and how it took it
Russia’s conquest of Siberia was not a slow drift eastward — it was a hard, relentless campaign led by Cossack fighters armed with firearms the locals had never seen. Over a few decades, they crushed ...
On a wooded river island, a Ukrainian family guards the legacy of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks, whose history and traditions are making a comeback during the war. The Zaporizhzhia region in southern ...
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