Cossacks: In a now-infamous recent incident in Sochi, members of the punk-rock protest collective Pussy Riot were horsewhipped by a man in uniform identified as a Cossack. For Jews, the word ...
The Cossacks, with their distinctive appearance, legendary dancing, and military mastery, have been mythologized for centuries. They became the heroes of folk tales, however, some crossed sides to ...
The author’s go bag list Photo by Joan Afton The “running across the rooftops, carrying our things” I’d always heard about was “to escape the Cossacks [ptui!],” not the Nazis.
The proverbial Russian phrase “if only the tsar knew” captures this mindset. But as the economist Brad DeLong likes to say, ...
Cossack of the Don. The Illustrated London News. February 3, 1854 Cossacks Skirmishing. The Illustrated London News. November 16, 1855 John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. July 17, 1853 A heavily armed ...
Dakota Valley was tied at halftime and entering the fourth quarter before holding Sioux Valley scoreless for nearly half of ...
This week new information emerged from the various media sources in Chita that the Council of atamans of the Trans Baikal Cossacks organisation has discharged Simeon Boikov from his position of ...
Cossacks led by Yermak Timofeyevich wade into combat against a band of indigenous Siberians. The clash was the decisive moment of a 1580 expedition by Yermak and 840 of his men to open up tracts ...
If the U.S. blocks intelligence sharing again, Ukraine will be able to obtain satellite data from Europe and process it ...
After trailing by double-digits in the second half, the Wagner girls basketball got within three points of Sioux Valley in the consolation round of the Class A girls state tournament in the fourth ...
But as the economist Brad DeLong likes to say, “the Cossacks work for the Czar.” In other words, the blame for misdeeds rests with the top man, who often uses seemingly uncontrollable minions ...