Police officers who are willing to give their lives to Putin (Photo)

The cosacks, usually wearing wool hats, joined forces with the police and security forces of the National Guard to crush Saturday's protest, held prior to Vladimir Putin's oath on Monday, for the fourth presidential mandate.

More than 700 people, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, were arrested. Navalny was released on Sunday morning, but faces the risk of 30 days in prison on charges of organising an illegal rally. He is ordered to face trial on May 11th.

But numerous protesters gathered in dozens of other cities throughout Russia, in what is considered to be the biggest anti Putin demonstrations for over a year.

We'll deal with anyone who tries to upset Putin”, an unidentified cozak named, from the “Medduza” website. The cosacks also used rubber sticks to protesters gathered in Moscow's “Pushkin” Square.

Some of them were identified as members of “Central Cossack Troops” (CCT), an organisation that has close ties to Russia's security forces. The Kremlin administration has paid about 190 thousand pounds to this organisation to train the Kozakes for ensuring public safety in whatever shows can be held in the city, according to documents published by the mayor's office.

Coszac organisation members have recently met with National Guard officials to discuss security operations during the World Cup, which will begin on 14 June. Russian media identifies “ataman” (CPT) as Ivan Mironov, a former FSB security service officer.

This news comes at a time when shadows of threats from the Islamic State still weigh on the football World, which will begin 14 June in Russia.

The terrorist Islamic organisation has also officially activated its propaganda network on the eve of the most important football tournament on the planet.

<x) SITE”, the association that monitors activity “line” of Islamic terrorists, with a knife that seems to share between the World Cup trophy.

Poster is the last of a long series of threats, which the Islamic State has long published, even in terms of football.

In April there was a warning to Putin, saying “you would pay for killing Muslims”, in a poster showing a Kalashnikov jihadist in hand. In March, terrorists threatened Lionel Messin, dressed in orange, such as those executed in videos of their propaganda, kneeling and near a jihadist willing to kill him.

More posters with bloody footballers would be displayed in the following months. The Cause of This Hatred on the Side of I The SIS concerning Russia stems from the fact that President Putin has backed Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime.