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 ...

For centuries in Europe, the Russian army was characterized by the image of Cossack horsemen with twirled moustaches, sheepskin hats, and a lance and sword. The old world knew the sound of their ...

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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 ...

MOSCOW, August 12 (Itar-Tass) ——MOSCOW, August 4 (Itar-Tass) — Russian Cossacks are starting a Moscow-Paris cavalry march from Moscow’s Poklonnaya Hill on Sunday, August 12. The Cossacks will repeat ...

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 ...

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.

LOMZA, Poland, September 1 (Itar-Tass) — The Moscow-Paris Cossack cavalry march devoted to the 200th anniversary of the 1812 Patriotic War reached the Polish town of Lomza on Saturday evening, having ...