On February 28th, The Cossack Congress in America Educational Outreach team held a meeting to discuss the progress on the Cossack history presentation, to be presented in a university in the fall academic semester, as well as discuss the possibility of participating in Saint Vladimir'a celebration in July 2015. The team has prepared certain ideas, and has presented these ideas to the Saint Vladimir's day committee for approval. The team will meet again on Saturday March 14th, 2015.

On February 22, 2015, the Cossacks of the Stanitsa and guests from neighboring Stanitsas gathered together to for divine liturgy in the Cossack Saint Nicholas Church. Following the divine liturgy, everyone participated in Forgiveness, as the last Sunday before lent is called Forgiveness Sunday. Following the prayers, the Cossacks and parishioners gathered together in the Church hall for Maslenitsa celebration!

February 19th, 1886, is the birthday of Ataman Andrei Shkuro. He was born in the stanitsa of Pashkovskaya in Kuban. Shkuro graduated from Nikolayev Cavalry School in 1907 and served in the Kuban Cossack Army. In World War I Shkuro became the commander of a special guerrilla unit which executed several daring raids behind Austrian-Hungarian and German lines. During World War I, Shkuro was promoted to the rank of colonel. In the spring of 1918, after the establishment of the Bolshevik régime, Shkuro organized an anti-Bolshevik Cossack unit in the area of Batalpashinsk in the Caucasus.

For me, the answer to the title, is a definite yes. The recovery of the Cossack republic, order in the lands, is possible and moreover, in the case of the dissolution of the Russian Federation will be vital for all Cossacks. I do not want waste the time of the readers on why I think the collapse of the Russian Federation is unavoidable, and all those who are interested in more information, can get acquainted with the forecasts of analysts, with various studies on the topic. The information is widely available, and it is not a secret.

February 12th, 2015 in Aksai Rostov Region, in the Stanitsa Aksai Cherkassy County of the Don Cossacks, was held the first meeting of the organizing committee on the preparation for the Cossack National games “Sherimitsy 2015” dedicated to Saint George day. Together the representatives of the Cossack communities of Aksai Rostov, Aksay, and Starocherkask Yurtov, identified a number of priorities issues related to the organization of the 2015 Sherimitsy, set goals and objectives, and planned a joint action plan.