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Kazakh–Russian Ethnic Conflicts
Kazakh–Russian ethnic conflicts refers to the ethnic clashes between Kazakhs and Russians that occurred from the late 20th to early 21st century. Events Kazakh–Cossack conflict of 1990 In 1990, tensions escalated between local Cossacks and Kazakh nationalists in Uralsk. On August 27, the Cossacks held a rally in the city center, where a resolution was passed demanding the invalidation of the transfer of the Ural Oblast to Kazakhstan in 1920. The organizers of the rally were fined, but the Cossacks persisted in their demands. On September 4 of the same year, the Uralsk City Council declared the Russian language the local official language. Ural events of 1991 On September 15, 1991, the Cossacks celebrated the 400th anniversary of their service to the Russian crown in Uralsk. It was essentially the first and now the last large-scale event of the revived Ural Cossacks in 1990. Despite objections from the local administration and the mobilization of the Kazakh nationali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cossacks
The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic languages, East Slavic Eastern Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an important role in defending the southern borders of Ukraine and Russia, Cossack raids, countering the Crimean-Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe, Crimean-Nogai raids, alongside economically developing steppes, steppe regions north of the Black Sea and around the Azov Sea. Historically, they were a semi-nomadic and semi-militarized people, who, while under the nominal suzerainty of various Eastern European states at the time, were allowed a great degree of self-governance in exchange for military service. Although numerous linguistic and religious groups came together to form the Cossacks, most of them coalesced and became East Slavic languages, East Slavic–speaking Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Christians. The rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russian Empire en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
