PUTIN'S BILL ON COSSACKS' STATE SERVICE SUBMITTED TO DUMA
RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, April 13 (RIA Novosti) - Vladimir Putin submitted a draft law On State Service of the Russian Cossacks for consideration by the State Duma.
According to the presidential spokesman, the head of state sent a relevant letter to Boris Gryzlov, chairman of the lower house of the parliament.
The draft law spells out the legal and organizational fundamentals for involving the Russian Cossacks in state service based on the current practice of regulating the issue by other Russian law-making instruments. The draft law does not regulate any other activities of the Cossacks, unrelated to state service.
The law covers only Russian nationals being members of Cossack societies.
To this end, the draft law defines "Cossack society" as a voluntary association of citizens in the form of a non-profit organization established under the federal law and included in the Russian Federation's Cossack societies registry, with its members having committed to state or other duty according to the established procedure.
The Russian Cossacks are to exercise state civil service under the law of the Russian Federation and military and law enforcement service in accordance with the federal legislation.
The Cossacks are a military estate that existed in Russia before the revolution of 1917 and served in border areas. Russia's Cossacks numbered more than 4.4 million in 1916. There were 11 Cossack military formations in the country in the early 20th century. The Cossacks were abolished as an estate in 1920. In 1936, several Cossack cavalry larger units were activated and later fought Nazis in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.
The revival of the Russian Cossacks began in the late 1980s with the emergence of the early public organizations.
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