Cossacks guard the local parliament building in Crimea's capital Simferopol on March 6, 2014 Senior Correspondent On Monday morning, about 150 Cossack officers got together in Crimea, the breakaway ...

A new political force has emerged in Russia. Seven million Cossacks are patrolling cities, joining the National Guard and getting ready to form their own political party. Kommersant Vlast attempts to ...

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 ...

Children and teenagers undergo training at a military boot camp, run by local Cossack organizations and set up in the mountains of the Crimea near the town of Bakhchisarai, Ukraine. The camps last for ...

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 ...