The Krasnodar region of Russia will host the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi. Its governor has "deputized" a force of 1000 Cossacks to help maintain order. See the New York Times article for details.
The governor's idea of maintaining order mostly consists of keeping Islamic Russians out of his region. If accurately reported, this sounds like officially sanctioned ethnic cleansing.
Western notions of political correctness apparently hold little sway in Putin's Russia. I am reminded of the Rolling Stones hiring the Hell's Angels motorcycle club to provide security at their 1969 Altamont concert in Northern California.
