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The modern countries of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, all claim descendance from an early medieval polity known as Rus. By 950, Rus was a nation centered around the city of Kiev, ruled by a Slavonic-speaking aristocracy. What happened before 950, and the origins of the Rus state, lay shrouded in mystery.

Sources:
Archaeological Evidence for Staraya Ladoga as an Early Scandinavian Emporium of the Global North - Natalja V. Grigorjeva
A History of Russia(Seventh Edition) - Riasanovsky, Steinberg
Genetic study of the Rurik Dynasty - Vladimir G. Volkov, Andrey N. Seslavin
In Austrvegr - Marika Mägi
On the origin of the name Rurik - A.V. Oleinichenko
Міждисциплінарні гуманітарні студії Серія: Історичні науки. 2017. Вип. 3
New Data on the Ryurik Gorodishche near Novgorod - E.N Nosov
Population Genomics of the Viking World - Margaryan et. al
Rusernas rike - Mats G. Larsson
Svear i Österviking - Holger Arbman
The early Slavs - Pavel Markovich Dolukhanov
The emergence of Rus, 750-1200 - Simon Franklin, Jonathan Shepard
The Historiography of Normanist and Anti-Normanist theories on the origin of Rus’ - Roman Zakharii
The Primary Chronicle - Anonymous
The Rus in Arabic Sources - Thorir Jonsson Hraundal
The Varangians - Sverrir Jakobsson
The Vikings in the East - Fjodor Androshchuk
Viking Rus - Wladyslaw Duczko
Was there a Riurikid Dynasty in Early Rus? - Donald Ostrowski
https://cleasby-vigfusson-dictionary....
https://indo-european.eu/2019/07/viki...

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
5:07 Meaning of 'Rus'
12:03 Origin of 'Rus'
19:56 A Nordic Dynasty?
23:44 Scandinavian colonization
29:41 Scandinavian state involvement
34:21 Conclusion

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