It is also where they came into contact with the Tatars. Eventually, government caught up with the Cossacks. The Tsars used them to push the frontiers of Russia southwards and east, through ...

It was amidst these clashes that the Cossacks, an early incarnation of the Ukrainian state, would form in the contested territories, at times fighting against the Tatars and at times allying with ...

from groups of Cossacks and other formations that are now being created under the conditions of political hysteria that we see now in Crimea. And [Tatars] see a threat to themselves from these ...