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=== Russia ===

==== Registered Cossacks of the Russian Federation ====
{{Main|Registered Cossacks of the Russian Federation}}

The Registered Cossacks of the Russian Federation are the Cossack paramilitary formation providing public and other services, under the Federal Law of the Russian Federation dated December 5, 2005, No. 154-FZ "On State Service of the Russian Cossacks".<ref>{{cite web |date=8 December 2005 |script-title=ru:Федеральный закон Российской Федерации от 5&nbsp;декабря 2005 г. N 154-ФЗ – О государственной службе российского казачества |trans-title=Federal Law of the Russian Federation from 5&nbsp;December 2005 No 154-FZ – On the State Service of Russian Cossacks |url=http://www.rg.ru/2005/12/08/kazachestvo.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020101853/https://rg.ru/2005/12/08/kazachestvo.html |archive-date=20 October 2017 |access-date=21 August 2017 |website=rg.ru |language=ru}}</ref>

==== All-Russian Cossack Society ====
The [[All-Russian Cossack Society]] ({{Langx|ru|Всероссийское казачье общество}}) is responsible for the coordination of the activities of all 11 registered Cossack hosts, particularly in the spheres of patriotic education and the continuity of historical Cossack customs and traditions. Both registered and non-registered Cossack organizations can be part of the society. On 4 November 2019, Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] appointed Kuban Vice Governor and Kuban Cossack Host Ataman [[Nikolai Doluda]] as Ataman of the All-Russia Cossack Society.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 January 2020 |title=Поправки в Конституцию напишут Прилепин, Шахназаров и казачий атаман |website=Радио Свобода |url=https://www.svoboda.org/a/30379581.html |url-status=live |access-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728222210/https://www.svoboda.org/a/30379581.html |archive-date=28 July 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nikolai Doluda: "New opportunities open up for Cossack youth movement" |url=https://yugtimes.com/news/52861/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707063358/https://yugtimes.com/news/52861/ |archive-date=2020-07-07 |access-date=2020-07-07}}</ref>