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 ...

Aleksandr Agafonov worked in a local church and co-founded a Cossack community in Russia’s northern naval city of Severomorsk. He is among a growing number of members of Russia’s resurgent Cossack ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - By tradition, Cossacks protected Russia's borderlands, but on Tuesday descendants of the Tsarist warrior caste patrolled a patch of central Moscow as part of a resurgence encouraged ...

They are wrapped in folklore, faith and history, often portrayed as relics of another age: Russia’s Cossacks. Once marginalised and persecuted, they have been drawn back into the centre of state power ...