Cossack dancing… Zorba 5 Oct 20195 Oct 2019 Flying back to China recently, I watched Zorba the Greek as one of the in-flight options. Have you seen it? Continue reading "Zorba"
Cossacks… Cossack Sorcerers 4 Oct 2019 Honestly, what could be cooler than Cossack sorcerers? Well, it seems they did really exist! Continue reading "Cossack Sorcerers"
Andrey Karimov… Karimov’s Cossack System 6 Oct 2018 I recently participated in a training course on journalistic writing. The final assignment was to write a short piece suitable for a newspaper or magazine. This had quite a short…
Cossacks Cossack cultural snippets 3 Sep 20183 Sep 2018 A history of Cossacks from Realm of History. Channel News Asia, in the run-up to the World Cup, also gave a potted history of the Cossacks, including some interesting contemporary…
Cossacks… Cossacks in Kyrgyzstan 5 Aug 20175 Aug 2017 This is new to me: there is an active Cossack host in Kyrgyzstan! Continue reading "Cossacks in Kyrgyzstan"
Cossacks… The strange tale of the French cossacks 5 Aug 2017 Nicholas Kotar has written an interesting post about one of the lesser known stories concerning Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Russia. Continue reading "The strange tale of the French cossacks"
Cossacks… Stavropol Cossacks 24 Jun 201724 Jun 2017 There are two general types of "Cossack" in contemporary Russia. There are the groups which generally are culturally-oriented; these are the people I know via Andrey Karimov's group. There are…
China… White Russians in Hong Kong 11 May 2017 I posted last year about an exhibition I attended at the Russian Cultural Centre here in Beijing. It was a collection of memorabilia about the Russian community in Harbin, and…
Acting… Choose life. Choose Systema. 2 May 20172 May 2017 As I write, the annual Siberian Cossack System gathering is taking place in St. Petersburg. Once again, the timing didn't work for me and I couldn't attend. However, technology…
