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Don Cossacks
Several Cossack regions were recognized by the Tsars; these were
abolished by the Bolsheviks and their populations dispersed.
The revival in Cossack traditions and history has resulted in the
revival of the flags of the Don Cossacks and the Kuban Cossacks.
The flag of Don Cossacks is a blue/yellow/red tricolour, which dates back to the flag
of the Omnipotent Don Army (which was nothing of the sort, incidentally!).
The colours stood for the Don, the Kalmyks and the Russians respectively.
stuart notholt
Kuban Cossacks
The flag of the Kuban Cossacks includes blue (for Russians) and green (for Muslims.)stuart notholt
Black Sea Cossacks
Some Cossacks use a dark red banner with a white Maltese cross near the hoist. This dates back to a Black Sea Cossack flag of 1792.stuart notholt
The Union of Cossacks
In 1990, the Union of Cossacks adopted tihs emblem. This group uses as its flag the Russian flag with the emblem in the centre.stuart notholt
The Archangel Gabriel Flag
On 21-JUL-1995 the "Corriere della Sera" wrote:
"The 'Cossack Renaissance' is an old ambition of this [the Cossack] people,
which always felt as an act of tiranny the imposition of sickle-and-hammer
flags and now it has restored the old standard bearing Archangel Gabriel with
unsheathed sword and unfolded swings".
guisseppe bottasini 09-AUG-1995