Russian gasoline output has fallen to roughly 65 percent of demand after Ukrainian drone strikes idled major refineries, ...

By Jekaterina Golubkova July 3 (Reuters) - Cossacks and volunteers have stepped in to help city officials and police keep ...

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 ...

Staff members from the city administration, the police, representatives of the Cossack community, and volunteers from sports ...

June 10, 2026: For centuries, Cossacks were mounted warriors living on the fringes of the expanding Russian empire. Most of them were Russian but, in southern Russia, the region known as Ukraine also ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late April 2024, in central Kyiv, heavy cranes began dismantling a sculpture erected to commemorate 17th-century Pereiaslav ...

In response to a nationwide fuel crisis exacerbated by Ukrainian attacks, Cossacks and volunteers in Anapa are aiding city ...

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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 ...