Inside a Cossack Youth-Training Camp

Teenagers undergo training at a military boot camp, run by local Cossack organizations and set up in the mountains of Crimea near the town of Bakhchisarai, Ukraine, August 4, 2011.
Gleb Garanich / Reuters

Taking Aim
Trainees drill at the Cossack boot camp in Bakhchisarai on Aug. 4, 2011. Young residents of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, as well as the Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, have taken part in the training course.

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