What's up with this?

[kring]

that is a great hairstyle! one of a kind...

[Ak-Murza]

Originally Posted by Aussieuke

I think the style was more for practical reasons than attempting to lure unsuspecting cossacks for close contact training.May also be a tradition with respect to women having long hair and not short hair.Maybe some one can enlighten us with respect to women in the old days!!? and their hair practices.

Yulia is the most beutifull PM in the World,hands down! And it's not just the hair,neither...
I believe in the past,braiding styles were different for an unmarried girl and a married lady.Ones she is married,she changes her braids.I might be confusing this with Tatar traditions,'couse my family is Ukrainian/Tatar and we intermixed every custom we could.