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Photos: Cossacks in the Crimea crisis

March 6, 2014 1:50PM ET

A rejuvenated Cossack "host" emerges to support Russia in the contested peninsula

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Cossacks stand guard near the Crimean parliament building in Simferopol, Thursday March 6, 2014. Recognized as an independent ethnicity, bands of Cossacks have turned out to support the Russian presence in Crimea. David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters
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Pro-Russian Cossacks gather in Simferopol, Feb. 28, 2014. Though they have roots in both Ukrainian and Russian culture, the Cossacks remain fiercely proud of their independence. In the Crimea they have thrown their muscle behind the Russians. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Crimean and Russian Cossacks who have volunteered to help the police stand in formation near the port of Sevastopol. Baz Ratner/Reuters
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People in cossack hats rally in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, on March 4, 2014, in support of ethnic Russians in the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. The poster reads: "We support our brother people!" Andrey Kronberg/AFP/Getty Images
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A Cossack stands guard near the Crimean parliament building in Simferopol, March 6, 2014. David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters
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Cossacks help police detain a "Femen" women's rights activist during protest against the situation in the Crimea in front of regional Crimean parliament building in Simferopol, March 6, 2014. Sergei Grits/AP
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A Russia Cossack mans a checkpoint on the main road between Simferopol and Sevastopol on March 6, 2014 near Verkhn'osadove, Ukraine. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Russian Cossacks stand on a path guarding access to the Ukrainian naval command ship Slavutych on March 6, 2014 in Sevastopol, Ukraine. Sean Gallup/Getty Images