Kyivan Rus
Kyivan Rus Is Not Russia
Kremlin Lies: Kyivan Rus is the cradle and ancestral homeland of Russia, and Ukrainians are merely a branch of the Russian people
Debunking the myth that Kyivan Rus is 'the cradle of Russia.' Scholarly sources prove that Rus was a separate medieval state centered in Kyiv.
Read more →The Baptism of Rus Was Not the 'Baptism of Russia'
Kremlin Lies: The Baptism of Rus in 988 was specifically the baptism of Russia, and Kyiv — the 'mother of Rus cities' — is the spiritual cradle of Russian Orthodoxy
Debunking Russia's appropriation of the Baptism of Rus. The baptism of 988 was an event in Kyivan history that occurred 159 years before Moscow was founded.
Read more →The Name 'Rus' Is Ukrainian, Not Russian
Kremlin Lies: The name 'Rus' has always meant Russia and the Russian people, and Ukraine appropriated a name that doesn't belong to it
Debunking Russia's appropriation of the name 'Rus'. Historical sources prove that 'Rus' is the Kyivan land, while Muscovy only adopted the name 'Russia' in the 18th century.
Read more →The Rise of Kyivan Rus: A Local Process, Not a 'Varangian Gift'
Kremlin Lies: Kyivan Rus was created by Scandinavian Varangians, and the Slavs were incapable of building a state on their own. Therefore Muscovite rulers — as heirs of the Varangians — have a claim to all Rus lands
Debunking the 'Norman theory' in its imperial interpretation. The rise of Rus was a complex process of interaction between local Slavs and Scandinavian newcomers.
Read more →Yaroslav the Wise: A Kyivan Prince, Not a 'Russian Tsar'
Kremlin Lies: Yaroslav the Wise was the great ruler of 'Ancient Rus,' i.e., ancient Russia, and his legacy belongs to Moscow as the 'gatherer of the Rus lands'
Debunking Russia's appropriation of Yaroslav the Wise's legacy. His reign was the golden age of the Kyivan state, centred on Kyiv.
Read more →The Russian Language: A Finno-Ugric Substrate Beneath a Slavic Shell
Kremlin Lies: The Russian language is the direct heir of the ancient Slavic language, while Ukrainian and Belarusian are merely its 'dialects', corrupted by Polish and other influences
Why Russian is not a 'pure Slavic' language. The Finno-Ugric substrate, Turkic borrowings and artificial 'Church Slavonicisation' — how the language of Moscow was formed.
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