Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word Cossack comes from the Turkic word meaning “free man” or “outlaw.” True to this moniker, Ukraine’s Cossacks — a ...

Contemplating the unpredictable trajectory of Tolstoy's life puts one in mind of those quizzical Max Beerbohm caricatures, wherein an old writer confronts--with perplexity, if not with contempt--his ...

Hitler highly valued the Cossacks, describing them as an Aryan people and promising abundant rewards in the event of a German victory. Despite this, very few Soviet Cossacks went over to the Nazi side ...

Cossacks guard the local parliament building in Crimea's capital Simferopol on March 6, 2014 Senior Correspondent On Monday morning, about 150 Cossack officers got together in Crimea, the breakaway ...

Today’s Cossacks are a far cry from their Czarist-era ancestors, the fierce horsemen with woollen papakha hats, sabres and horsewhips, best known as a buffer force on the borders of the Russian Empire ...

Cossacks are not a race, nation, profession, nor a term for a particular location. They are all of those, combined. Let’s debunk the myths about what the Cossacks were and what they are now. They ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French artist Emeric Lhuisset has recreated a painting by Ukrainian artist Illia Riepin, Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish ...

The Cossacks and the Bandidos were the two of the biker gangs at the center of Sunday’s deadly shootout in Waco, Texas, according to the Waco Tribune-Herald. At least five different biker gangs were ...

The team at GSC Game World, makers of the STALKER franchise, have announced a release date for the reboot of Cossacks, their hit real-time strategy series. Cossacks 3 will return to Windows PC on Sept ...

With this year marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, it seems a bit fitting that the Napoleonic Wars seem to be getting a little more attention than normal. Case in point is ...