Get the Cossacks to get an independent nation somewhere and see whether or not such an endeavor is possible.
Wow, what's with the hostility & exclimation marks? Did a Cossack make a pass at you or something?Or get the Teachers have their Independent Nation!
Or the Youth...
Cossacks are NOT an ethnicity!
They are Ukrainians / Russians with a specific job / lifestyle during a specific historical era with a specific role, nothing more!
wikipedia said:In the 2002 Russian census[36] the Cossacks were allowed to a have distinct nationality as a separate Russian sub-ethnical group.
Depending on how you define a "Cossack nation" there was also at the same time-period the Ukrainian State led by Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi and the Ukrainian Free Territory of the Anarchist Cossack Nestor Makhno.