Victor Goncharov, Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region and head of the Don Forces, said at the presidential commission for Cossacks of the SFD in Novocherkassk yesterday that the Cossacks were ready to be granted executive authority, RIA Novosti reports.
The Cossack leader clarified that they wanted authority to protect nature and animals, monuments. 750 Cossacks registered at the reserve of the Defense Ministry.
Goncharov said that the Cossack Militia project was launched in Shakhty.
