It is possible that this community of descendants of late 10th century Rus ' who lived in a remote area of Kievan Rus ' preserved family names, runic lore in archaic forms, ancestral beliefs and some of the …

Sep 19, 2025 · Russian scholars, along with some Westerners, consider the Rus to be a southeastern Slavic tribe that founded a tribal league; the Kievan state, they affirm, was the creation of Slavs and …

USDA's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) provides financing for much needed infrastructure improvements to rural communities. These include water and waste treatment, electric power, telecommunication and …

The Rus are a people described in historical documents as traders and chiefs who were instrumental in the formation of the ancient Russian state between a.d. 750 and 1000.

The Rus', also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly origina...

Oct 15, 2025 · The Kievan Rus’ were a powerful people created by Viking invaders who ruled the Slavic tribes around the Baltic Sea and, in a way, became Slavs themselves. Their rule ultimately came to …

Given the ongoing war in Ukraine it is urgent to understand the history of Rus to place this conflict in its proper historical context. Two takeaways are worth noting.

The Rus’ were a proud and unique people of mixed ethnic and cultural origin. They took to state-building along the many rivers of Eastern Europe – chiefly the Volga and the Dnieper.

It relates the history of Kievan Rus’ from 850 to 1110 with various updates and edits made throughout the 12th century by scholarly monks. It is difficult to untangle legend from fact, but this document …

Dec 11, 2025 · Русь (Rusĭ) is the collective plural for the Varangian elite ruling Rus, the Old East Slavic state. A single individual is called a русинъ (rusinŭ), whence modern Russian руси́н (rusín, …