Description:
Purpose: to consider the main ideas of the Cossack movement which have defined a place and a role of the modern Cossacks in the Russian society. Methodology: methodological basis of research are the standard principles of a historicism and the objectivity, assuming the concrete historical approach to the analysis of events in their dialectic development. Results: some substantial directions of development of ideology of modern Cossack movement are revealed: use of traditions of Cossack democracy at formation of civil society, strengthening of an orthodox component of Cossack culture, manipulation idea «Cossack ethnos», attempts of creation of political party and active participation in political life of the country. Practical implications: results of research can be interesting to the experts who are taking up the problems of development of the modern Cossacks.