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Cossack

(formerly) any of the free warrior-peasants of chiefly East Slavonic descent who lived in communes, esp in Ukraine, and served as cavalry under the tsars

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Cossack

(Turkic, “a daring, free man”), a person who broke with his social environment (14th to 17th century); at the end of the 15th century the term “cossack” was applied to the free people living at the edges of the Russian state.

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Along with Don Cossack, Hales also identified the talent of subsequent top-notch performer Quito De La Roque and three-time bumper winner Samain at the beginning of their careers and the trainer is hopeful he can have similar luck with the new recruits.

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Footage showed the assailants, described by Navalny as Cossacks and wearing traditional fur hats, some in military-style fatigues and black boots, showering the group with milk outside the terminal of Anapa airport, about 1,500 kilometres south of Moscow, before setting upon them.

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Having already accepted defeat after three torrid days at the hands of a host of successful favourites and wellbacked winners, Don Cossack delivered the final knock-out blow.

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The botched first-ever transfer of power in the Early Modern Ukrainian Cossack polity (the so-called Hetmanate) in 1657 was a principal cause of the political crisis that followed, which only ended through the initial division of Ukraine into two halves (agreed to in the Andrusovo truce of 1667 between Poland and Russia, which was confirmed in 1686) and their eventual absorption into tsarist Russia.

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Cossacks in southern Russia over the weekend burned effigies of Turkish President Recep ErdoAaAaAeAaanAaAaAeAeAaAeAeA and U.S.AaAaAeAeAaAeAeA President Barack Obama, those nations' flags, in a rally for President Vladimir Putin's foreign policies, the Moscow Times reported.

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Cossack militia attacked the punk group with horsewhips earlier in the day as the artists - who have feuded with Vladmir Putin's government for years - tried to perform under a sign advertising the Sochi Olympics.