They will also facilitate the spread of Olympic and Paralympic values across Russia, having become the second representative from Krasnodar to be part of the ambassadorial team for the Games. The ...

Sochi 2014 ambassadors’ team has been joined by as many as 157 singers from one of the oldest musical collectives of Russia - the Kuban Cossack Choir. In its new role, not only will the Choir ...

SOCHI, southern Russia, August 16 (Itar-Tass) — The directors of the Kuban Cossack Choir have suggested staging concerts in the capitals of the former winter Olympic Games in 2013 and promote the ...

The Chorus simply bursts out in the spectacular, capturing show in which the powerful energy of masterful, dynamic dances, recklessness of daring Cossack songs and touching sentimentality are combined ...

The great Russian patriot, creator and immortal director of the Don Cossack Choir, Sergei Alekseevich Jaroff was born in 1896 to a merchant family in the city of Makarev in the Kostroma province. The ...

Putin attends Austrian minister's wedding – and brings bizarre gift with him RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has stopped off on the way to a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Markel today to ...

There was a Russian Cossack choir, a horse-drawn carriage and a venue specialising in a Viennese fried chicken. But one thing about the wedding of the Austrian foreign minister, Karin Kneissl, stood ...

The contrast couldn't have been greater: the protest band Pussy Riot in colorful ski masks and mini dresses, attempting to film a segment for a new video on Sochi's waterfront; and Cossacks in ...