RUSSIA: ANYONE CAN BE A COSSACK.(Brief Article)

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: August 21, 2002 | Copyright information

For the first time since the tsarist era, Cossacks will be included in the national census in 2002 as a separate "nationality," "Vremya novostei" reported on 2 August. According to the daily, the motivation for the Cossacks to participate in the census in this fashion is financial. As General Ataman Viktor Vodolatskii explained, "If the census shows that a large number of Cossacks live compactly on the territory of the All-Great Forces of the Don, then we can compete for fede...

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