The old world knew about the Cossack horsemen, and the fearsome name of these natural-born warriors permeated western legends about Russia. Nikolai Kochergin, 1940. Don Cossacks capturing the fortress ...

The versatility of the shashka predestined it to a military future far beyond its humble origins among the mountain clans of the Caucasus. Given to boys as future warriors and passed down through ...

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Cossack leaders received Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Don region this week to discuss the revival of the legendary Tsarist cavalry corps. Putin in April submitted a bill to the State Duma ...

While journalist Anton La Guardia’s flawed thesis is that the State of Israel is a modern version of ancient Sparta – totally dominated by the military – we need to ask about Amos Oz’s observation.

They once formed the elite guard of a succession of Russian tsars and had a reputation as the fiercest soldiers in the imperial armed forces. Now, after decades of repression under communism, the ...

The Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army, the Kuban Cossack Choir and the Kremlin Riding School will perform at the finish of the mounted march MOSCOW, August 8 (Itar-Tass) — The ...

Twenty-three Cossacks are taking part in the cavalry march that kicked off on Moscow’s Poklonnaya Hill on August 12 KACENAI, Lithuania, August 28 (Itar-Tass) — Russian Cossacks who are on a march from ...