[DOC] [TLE] Cossacks - Minority Rights Group [PAR] Cossacks were a social group that had begun to develop some ethnic ... guarded 
the frontiers of the Russian Empire and in return were granted land privileges. ... 
Cossacks fought with the separatist forces in the Transdniester conflict in 
Moldova in 1992. In June 1991 President Yeltsin issued a decree marking the 
political... [DOC] [TLE] Cossacks [PAR] Cossacks, name given to a group of people in the former Union of Soviet ... In mid
-1992, a decree signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin rehabilitated the 
cossacks. The decree granted them the status of an ethnic group and gave them 
the... [DOC] [TLE] World Directory of Minorities - US Department of Justice [PAR] Feb 19, 2014 ... Europe MRG Directory > Russian Federation > Cossacks ... Traditionally 
Cossacks guarded the frontiers of the Russian Empire and in return were granted 
land ... Cossacks as a national or ethnic group and they were listed as ... 1992. In 
June 1991 President Yeltsin issued a decree marking the political... [DOC] [TLE] Russians in Kazakhstan and demographic change: imperial legacy ... [PAR] Quarrels and controversy among the leaders of the Cossack troops themselves 
and with .... This meant that, by 1939, Russians had become the major ethnic 
group in .... It was even asserted that during the Almaty talks in 1992, President 
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language of... [DOC] [TLE] Resource Information Center | USCIS [PAR] Keywords: Russia / Kuban' Cossack / Krasnodar Krai / Cossack Revival / 
Nationalism ... (Encyclopedia of World Cultures, 1992, 103) ... Today, Cossacks 
have been granted status as an ethnic group by President Boris Yeltsin, and 
have once... [DOC] [TLE] The Crimea Model: Will Russia Annex the Northern Region of ... [PAR] Oct 16, 2014 ... In 1993, then President Boris Yeltsin, proposed that ethnic Russians be granted 
special status where national minorities would be .... Many groups were 
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the Cossacks, and beginning in 1992, the organizations were denied... [DOC] [TLE] Chechnya - Wikipedia [PAR] The Chechen Republic commonly referred to as Chechnya (/ttni/; 
Russian: ; IPA: ..... In April 1996 the first democratically elected president of 
Chechnya, .... At the end of the Soviet era, ethnic Russians (including Cossacks) 
comprised .... Ichkeria also received vocal support from the Baltic countries, a 
group of... [DOC] [TLE] Historical background of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine ... [PAR] A variety of social, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic factors contributed to the 
sparking of unrest in .... Under this new agreement, Russia was granted rights to 
garrison the Black ... Other minority ethnic groups recorded as present in Crimea 
include ... Donbass was largely under control of the Ukrainian Cossack 
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frontiers of the Russian Empire and in return were granted land privileges. ... In 
June 1991 President Yeltsin issued a decree marking the political .... which 
would also confer upon Cossacks the status of a distinct ethnic group. [DOC] [TLE] RussiaUkraine relations - Wikipedia [PAR] RussiaUkraine relations were transitioned into international relations during the 
1990s ... Prior to Euromaidan, under Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich (
February .... Russia, with which they shared much of the culture, language and 
religion. .... In 1992, Ukraine agreed to voluntarily remove over 3,000 tactical 
nuclear... [DOC] [TLE] The Cossacks: A Cross-Border Complication To Post-Soviet Eurasia [PAR] Russian Empire, the Cossacks evolved into a ... even between Cossack groups. 
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within Russia, ... much as the person of the President. .... commander granted the 
Cossacks territory along ... aware of the large ethnic Russian population in the. [DOC] [TLE] Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - The Cossack ... [PAR] While there were thirteen Slavic Cossack "hosts" in Russia and the Ukraine, there 
were ... Cossacks

Question: In 1992 this Russian president granted the Cossacks the status of an ethnic group
Answer: Boris Yeltsin