President Medvedev Honors Cossack Hosts 08.12.2011 The President presented banners to atamans of the Central, Don, Volga Yeniseysk, Trans-Baikal, Irkutsk, Kuban, Orenburg, Siberian, Terek, and ...

The area of the Don Cossacks host was inhabited in 1917 by about 4.5 million people, half of them identified as Cossacks; by 1921, there were only about 2.2 million people left in this area.

At the same time, representatives of Don Cossack Host – a public association uniting over 100,000 local Cossacks – will not attend the congress. Historically, the world congresses are only for ...