All-Russian Cossack Society
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The All-Russian Cossack Society (Russian: Всероссийское казачье общество) is a government sponsored Cossack advocacy organization in the Russian Federation. It is responsible for the coordination of activities between the 11 registered Cossack hosts. In particular, it works in the spheres of patriotic education and the continuing historical Cossack customs and traditions. Both registered and non-registered Cossack organizations can be part of the society. It is headed by the Society Ataman, Cossack General Vitaly Kuznetsov.[1]
On 4 November 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Kuban Vice Governor and Kuban Cossack Host Ataman Nikolai Doluda as Ataman of the Society.[2] Cossack General Doluda was appointed two years after the atamans and the Cossacks created it in October 2017. The idea was first proposed in 1994. On 27 November 2018, delegates of the Constitutive Assembly voted for the establishment of the society and adopted its official statute. Doluda was then nominated for head of the society, in which he was backed by the Presidential Council on Cossack Affairs.[3] In November 2023, Doluda resigned voluntarily to focus on legislative work. The head of the Terek Cossack Society, General Vitaly Kuznetsov, was appointed in his place.[1]
Authority
In July 2019, the State Duma voted to give President Putin the exclusive right to appoint and remove the Society Ataman, as well as to require that all Cossack units obey the procedures of the society.[4][5]
