Two crosses fashioned from red roses mark the spot where a car bomb killed three people last December in Pyatigorsk, Russia, roughly 170 miles east of Sochi. Just weeks later, assailants murdered six ...

Cossack women’s dress consisted of a cotton blouse and skirt. The blouse was form-fitting more often than not, but always had long sleeves and was finished with a tight row of elegant buttons ...

MOSCOW, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The Kremlin's envoy to the North Caucasus has been granted admission to the Terek Cossacks, ... the Terek Cossack Host and God," Khloponin said at the ceremony.

When Leo Tolstoy sat down to write “The Cossacks,” he set it near present-day Stavropol, where the Terek River divided the Muslim-populated mountains from the steppes, which were Cossack country.

Russian paramilitary units providing security for the soccer World Cup included among their members Cossack fighters who took part in clandestine campaigns in Ukraine and Syria. Skip to main content ...

Cossack women’s dress consisted of a cotton blouse and skirt. The blouse was form-fitting more often than not, but always had long sleeves and was finished with a tight row of elegant buttons ...

The Terek Cossacks' rationale, as outlined by Inkavtsov, was that in the 19th century the region was wealthy "before the Bolsheviks came to power and ruined it." Today, ...

This is our thought. It is difficult to say how we will implement it, but we will try to realize it.” Chaika reportedly floated the idea of attracting Cossacks into the ranks of Rosgvardia on June 24, ...

THE COSSACK ARMY. Share full article. Nov. 26, 1885. ... It has just been decided that the Cossacks of Terek, Oural, Couban and Astrakhan, who, in time of peace, number 18, ...

The sun rises and sparkles on the Terek, shimmering through the weeds—again the mountains. A bullock cart rolls out of a Cossack village, the women are walking, beautiful young women—the ...

Russian paramilitary units providing security for the soccer World Cup included among their members Cossack fighters who took part in clandestine campaigns in Ukraine and Syria. Skip to main content ...