FILE PHOTO: Cossacks and clergymen lead a religious procession dedicated to the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture and the International Children's Day in center of Krasnoyarsk, Russia May 26, 2019. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Cossacks have been told by one of their leaders not to kiss icons or clerics' hands to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The order was issued by Gennadiy Kovalev, head of the Council of Cossack Hetmans (leaders) of Russia which represents several thousand Cossacks, traditional militia units that once protected Russia's borderlands.
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