Who are the Cossacks today and how to treat them

In the XVIII-XX centuries. in official documents of the Russian Empire, the word "Cossack" means a person belonging to the Cossack class and the state in which the number of the population of several localities in Russia, which had special rights and responsibilities and at the same time meant a soldier of the armed forces of the Russian Empire, mostly cavalry and horse artillery and lower rank Cossack troops

Who are the Cossacks today and how to treat them - I do not know and leave you yourself decide this for themselves.