Public associations of the Cossacks of modern Russia (early 1990s – early 2020s)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of modern Cossack public organizations, the dynamics of their formation, the goals of their activities. The relevance of the topic is that representatives of the Cossack movement live in all regions of the country. They are actively involved in social, political, economic and cultural life. Today in Russia there are two main organizational forms of the Cossack movement - public Cossack organizations, acting on the basis of the Federal Law “On Public Organizations”, and Cossack societies, which are included in the state register for carrying out civil service, they operate on the basis of the Federal Law “On Civil Service Russian Cossacks “. The purpose of the article is to study all-Russian public associations of the Cossacks on the basis of considering their development, formulated goals and objectives. In the course of the study, methodological principles such as historicism and scientific objectivity were used, comparative, historical-genetic, problem-chronological and “oral history” methods were used. In modern Russia, the largest and most authoritative are two public organizations of the Cossacks: the All-Russian public organization “Union of Cossacks” and the All-Russian public organization for the development of the Cossacks “Union of Cossacks-Warriors of Russia and Abroad”. These organizations demand the revival of the Cossacks as a “special nation”, participation in strengthening statehood, socio-political stability and interethnic harmony, participation in the organization of military-patriotic education of youth and educational activities, the development of the economic base of the Cossacks and the promotion of its cultural and historical characteristics.