If you spend hours at the gym each week trying to build brute strength and massive legs there's a good chance you consider squats the gold standard. The back squat is a tried-and-true ...

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 ...

Vitaly Timkiv/Sputnik In the Russian Empire, the Cossacks formed a special social class. They were distinguished for their great military prowess and tasked with defending the country’s frontiers. But ...

Last year I joined Russian police officers and Cossack militiamen as they carried out a joint patrol in the Cossack capital of Novocherkassk, on the Don River, in southern Russia. In a clunky gray ...

Once prized fighters under the Tsars, Russia’s Cossack population was ostracised by authorities during the Soviet era. Under President Vladimir Putin, they have reintegrated into Russian society, ...