It also said Cossack patrols could begin on a official basis early next year. Moscow’s central district administration and the Cossack affairs department released a statement saying Tuesday’s patrol was the “personal initiative” of a Cossack leader. “Our aim is very clear: we want there to be law and order in the capital, for people to live and work honestly and for crime to be punished,” said Vladimir Timofeyev, who identified himself as a “Cossack colonel” and wore a green camouflage coat. While a few vendors in a chilly underpass left when Cossacks approached, the patrol - unarmed and outnumbered by journalists - was uneventful for a group with a reputation as whip-wielding horseback warriors protecting frontiers from foreign threats.īut it was a sign of a Cossack revival that plays into Putin’s calls for patriotism and his praise of Russian traditions - and which critics say aggravates the ethnic tension the president has struggled to keep under control.
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REUTERS/Maxim ShemetovĪ handful of men in high lambs wool hats and epaulettes paced a slushy square around a major railway station, looking for illegal trade and other infractions in what they called a trial run for further patrols in the heart of the Russian capital. A Russian cossack patrols near a train station in central Moscow November 27, 2012.
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