1992 Decree on the rehabilitation of the Cossacks
25 years ago, on June 16, 1992, President Boris Yeltsin issued a decree "On measures to implement the Law of the Russian Federation "On the rehabilitation of repressed peoples" in relation to the Cossacks." The decree ordered "to condemn the ongoing party-state policy of repression, arbitrariness and lawlessness against the Cossacks and its individual representatives, as well as" to support the movement for the revival of the Cossacks, the restoration of economic, cultural, patriotic traditions