SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY ... Russian music and dance groups include Chukchi throat singing, fiery Dagestan lezginka, melodic Kuban Cossack tunes, and the virtuoso alto improvisations of maestro ...

In a speech to police he declared, “What you can’t do, the Cossacks can.” During the Sochi Winter Olympics, more than 800 Cossacks are patrolling the city, including the Olympic Village ...

Updated with new death toll, information on possible suspects and background Sochi Drafts in Cossacks for Olympic Security In a move echoing back to Tsarist Russia, over 400 Cossacks arrived in ...

He climbs past an Olympics ... to Sochi, granting Russia the right to host the world, the decision paradoxically heightened the state’s suspicion of foreigners and their motives. The Cossack ...