The contrast couldn't have been greater: the protest band Pussy Riot in colorful ski masks and mini dresses, attempting to film a segment for a new video on Sochi's waterfront; and Cossacks in ...

A party has been established to defend the interests of the Cossacks MOSCOW, November 26 (Itar-Tass) —— Russia’s Cossacks, who have close links with the Russian Orthodox Church and with various ...

Add this to your list of things the Internet is good for. Just yesterday, a video went viral that showed members of the Russian dissident punk band Pussy Riot being beaten, whipped and pepper sprayed ...

MOSCOW (AP) – A thousand Cossacks, who formed a feared military force in czarist times, will help police patrol the southern Russian region hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of ...

President Donald Trump cannot enter the Russian city of St. Petersburg – as officials state that they "must flog" the US leader after comments he made. Andrei Polyakov, ataman of the St. Petersburg ...

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.

KRASNODAR, Russia -- Thousands of Muslims from a small ethnic group known as the Meskhetian Turks are fleeing this Black Sea region for the United States. The exodus is caused by what human rights ...

Quote: "Here are the latest five prisoners captured by the Azov Special Operations Regiment. They include: a drug addict, an officer, an Ossetian, a ‘descendant of the Cossacks’, and a mobilised ...