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 ...

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.

A Jesuit Cossack: A Memoir by Louis J. Gallagher, S.J., also recounts Fr. Gallagher's role as a diplomatic courier—for both the Soviet government and the Vatican—in bringing the remains of ...

Elected Cossacks, representing over 2,200 Cossack communities operating across the territory of 77 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, convened to define the priorities for the development ...