4.3 BlackвЂ…Sea,вЂ…AzovвЂ…andвЂ…DanubianвЂ…SichвЂ…Cossacks.Between 3.5 and 5.0В million people associate themselves with the Cossack culturalвЂ…identity across the world Cossack organizations operate in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, and the UnitedвЂ…States. In the 2002вЂ…RussianвЂ…census, 140,028В people declared Cossack ethnicity, while 67,573 people identified as Cossack in the 2010вЂ…census. During the 1990s, many regional authorities agreed to hand over some local administrative and policing duties to their Cossack hosts. In 1988, the Soviet Union passed a law allowing the re-establishment of former CossackвЂ…hosts and the formation of new ones. During the Perestroika era in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, descendants of Cossacks moved to revive their national traditions. ДЄfter WorldвЂ…WarвЂ…II, the SovietвЂ…Union disbanded the Cossack units in the SovietвЂ…Army. They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural river basins, and played an important role in the historical and cultural development of both Ukraine and Russia. The Cossacks are a group of predominantly EastвЂ…Slavic OrthodoxвЂ…Christian people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities originating in the steppes of Eastern Europe (in particular the Dnieper, in the WildвЂ…Fields).

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