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	The Rusyns - Rusyn
		Sometime between 896 and 898 a new Asiatic warrior people, the Magyars, crossed the crests of the Carpathians, including through the Verets’kyi pass, and settled in the region known as Pannonia, that is, the flat plain between the middle Danube and lower Tisza/Tysa Rivers.
		Rather, the ancestors of the present-day Carpatho-Rusyns are descendants of: (1) early Slavic peoples who came to the Danubian Basin with the Huns and Avars; (2) the White Croats; (3) the Rusyns of Galicia and Podolia; and (4) rusynized Vlachs from the southeast.
		For Carpathian Rus’ this meant the influx of new landlords, in particular the *Schonborn family from central Germany, which during the eighteenth century came to control large tracts of land and numerous Rusyn villages.
	www.rusyn.org /rusyns-history.html (5559 words)

	Free Essay ruth and mary Magdalene
		Rus is rewarded by her commitment, chesed, to the Jewish life and laws and is therefore rewarded by having her status restored; she brings honour back to the family of Naomi and becomes the descendant of Israel’s infamous King David.
		Rus is instructive of Halakah from the Midrash, she is also representative of how Israel should act and what are the effects of such action and she is also a reminder to the Jewish people of how they should accept the Torah.
		Rus is important in the Jewish faith for her actions and the significance they have in instructing Jewish people in their lived tradition on how they must honour the laws of Judaism, what is considered honourable conduct and how they should chesed to the teaching of the Torah as Rus was.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=29319 (1814 words)

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		In the 11th and 12th centuries, the constant incursions of nomadic Turkish tribes, such as the Kipchaks and the Pechenegs, led to the massive migration of Slavic populations from the fertile south to the heavily forested regions of the north, known as Zalesye.
		Millions of people whom Stalin and local authorities suspected of being a threat to their power were executed or exiled to Gulag labor camps in remote areas of Siberia or Central Asia.
		Russia's Congress of People's Deputies, in which the Communist presence was the strongest, attempted to impeach Yeltsin on March 26, 1993.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Russia (5590 words)

	Rus' (people) Information
		Rus’ (Русь, [rusʲ]) was a medieval East Slavic nation, which, according to the most popular but by no means the only theory, took its name from its ruling warrior class with Scandinavian roots.
		The Rus’ people were the predecessors of modern Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians.
		In 1043, the Rus' were Slavs." The Scandinavians were completely absorbed and, unlike their brethren in England and in Normandy, they left little cultural heritage in Eastern Europe.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Rus'_(people) (1548 words)

	Ukrainians
		Rus’ has been used to hypothesize the existence of an ‘ancient Rus'’ nationality, that is, one proto-Rus’ people, that disintegrated under the impact of
		Rus’ federation of principalities made the existence of a single people as well as political unity (with the exception of the reigns of
		Rus’ did not have a common national consciousness, but they showed an allegiance to their rulers, their
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/U/K/Ukrainians.htm (1915 words)

	Charter of the Cyber-USSR
		Never in human history has any people been led by such a brilliant galaxy of talent as our Politburo (apart from two traitors who would shortly be unmasked and liquidated)!
		Description of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (1934 version), used by N.I. Yezhov to prosecute "enemies of the people" (1936-39).
		A glossary of ideologically-correct insults for enemies of the people.
	www.cyberussr.com /rus (1533 words)

	RUS: The People Of Beslan Mourn Those Killed In Hostage Crisis - Getty Images - HighBeam Research
		RUS: The People Of Beslan Mourn Those Killed In Hostage Crisis - Getty Images - HighBeam Research
		RUS: The People Of Beslan Mourn Those Killed In Hostage Crisis
		BESLAN, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 4: Relatives of released hostages who were rushed to hospital after Russian troops stormed a school besieged by Chechen separatists search for names on lists posted on a wall on September 4, 2004 in the town of Beslan, Russia.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1P1-98705819.html (140 words)

	Rus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rus' - a medieval people of Eastern Europe.
		Rus' Khaganate - a polity created by the Rus' people in the ninth century.
		Kievan Rus' - a successor to the Rus' Khaganate that emerged in the late ninth and early tenth centuries
	www.buzznet.com /buzzwords/rus (161 words)

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		The former developed through the 13th century to represent people living in the GDL, the latter was applied to Baltic tribes occupying approximately one fourth of the territory of present-day Lithuania.
		Belays Rus(White Rus) -- this expression was mainly used to refer to Moscovy after Tatar yoke had ended as well as to the Novgorod principality in the 14th-15th centuries for it had been less dependent on Tatars.
		The meaning of the word stems from Tatars using word "white" to mean "free", "non-taxable", etc. Then it is clear that this expression could be used in Moscovy for the GDL as having religious connotations; however, it is nowhere to be found within the GDL up to the 17th century.
	www.belarusguide.com /history1/belname.html (1106 words)

	BT Research - Russia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the 11th and 12th centuries, the constant incursions of nomadic Turkish tribes, such as the Kipchaks and the Pechenegs, led to the massive migration of Slavic populations from the fertile south to the heavily forested regions of the north, known as Zalesye.
		Millions of people whom Stalin and local authorities suspected of being a threat to their power were executed or exiled to Gulag labor camps in remote areas of Siberia or Central Asia.
		Russia's Congress of People's Deputies, in which the Communist presence was the strongest, attempted to impeach Yeltsin on March 26, 1993.
	www.breathittteens.com /research.php?title=Russia (7472 words)

	Ukraine
		Kievan Rus' became weakened by internal quarrels and was destroyed by Mongol and Tatar invasions.
		In the mid 14th century it subjugated by Kazimierz IV of Poland, and after the 1386 marriage of Lithuania's Grand Duke Jagiello to Poland's Queen Jadwiga, was ruled by the Lithuanians as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
		At the same time the common people (peasants) retained their old ways (including the Orthodox religion), which led to the increasing social tensions, visible in such events as the 1596 Union of Bresc (Brest), created by Zygmunt III, who attempted to bring the Orthodox population closer to Catholicism.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/uk/Ukraine.htm (2878 words)

	Russia information - Search.com
		In the 10th to 11th centuries this state of Kievan Rus became the largest in Europe and was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
		The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the Russian people in the north from the Belarusians and Ukrainians in the west.
		Millions of people who Stalin and local authorities suspected of being a threat to their power were executed or exiled to Gulag labor camps in remote areas of Siberia.
	webshots.search.com /reference/Russia (6049 words)

	Kievan Rus Database (Rus (The consolidation of the state))
		Rus during Oleg and Igor's time was not the same as Rus under Vladimir and Yaroslav.
		The Rus territory included the part of eastern Europe between the Danube and the Black Sea in the south and the great lakes up to the ocean in the north, and between the Baltic in the west and the Urals and the Volga in the east.
		Rus had few naturally defensible frontiers, so they would conquer as much land as possible to use as a buffer to invasion.
	members.aol.com /mokosh/Rus_XThe_consolidation_of_the_stateX.html (585 words)

	Where Did the Rusyns Come From? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The company, which comprised various peoples, traced its roots to the city of Rodez (Ruzzi) in what is today southern France-a city whose inhabitants were called Ruteni or Ruti, and who today are known as rutenois.
		Traditionally, Rusyn historians have argued that their people received Christianity from the "Apostles to the Slavs," Cyril and Methodius, as part of their mission from the Byzantine Empire to the state known as Greater Moravia in 863.
		And as for Kievan Rus' in the east, it was Rusyns from the Carpathians who, according to Pap, brought Christianity to Kiev during the following century and not the other way around.
	www.carpatho-rusyn.org /where.htm (938 words)

	handbookindex
		The Rus were certainly in the region as early as the beginning of the 9th century.
		According to Ibn Fadlan, the Rus he encountered did wash once a day, but all used the same water, and their ablutions included spitting and blowing their noses into the communal washbowl and handing it to the next person.
		The Rus intermarried with the subject Slavs and took on their customs to such an extent that though they were still ruled by the descendants of Rurik, they had practically ceased to exist as a separate race by the 13th century.
	www.angelfire.com /empire/egfroth/rus.html (2402 words)

	Rus \| Finnish \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Rus (Русь in the Cyrillic Alphabet, transliterated Rus’) may refer to one of the following:Rus' (people) - a medieval people of Eastern Europe.
		Een Rus kan zijn:een bewoner van Rusland; zie Russen.Aanduiding voor vroege volken op het grondgebied van het huidige Rusland, Wit-Rusland en Oekraïne leefden en waarnaar de eerste Oost-Slavische staat is vernoemd, zie Rus (volk) (of Rus', Roes of Roes')een plant, zie: Rus (plant).een wandluis.
		Rus è un comune spagnolo di 3.759 abitanti situato nella comunità autonoma dell'Andalusia.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Rus/Finnish (438 words)

	Kievan Rus Database (Veche) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		No war could be begun without the consent of the people because, in the absence of a regular army, the prince could levy no other force but that of the militia.
		The citizens were not the only people admitted to the veche: the suburbs and neighboring townships had the right to have an equal share with them on the management of public affairs.
		The fl people, the smerds and the so-called bad peasants (terms designating the agricultural population) were present at the veche.
	members.aol.com /mokosh/Veche.html (1295 words)

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		The native language of the territory of Belarus is Belarusian; however the majority of Belarusians in Belarus are able to speak Russian and often use it as their day-to-day language (especially in Minsk and other large cities).
		Belarusians trace their name back to the people of Rus and not to Russians, who are also descendants of the people of Rus.
		The Belarusian people trace their distinct culture to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and earlier Kievan Rus and the Principality of Polatsk.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Belarusians (400 words)

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		There are a number of explanations for the origin of the word "Rus", referring to either a people or geographical area which now bears their name, Russia.
		In any case it is established that people of Scandinavian origin first explored by river, then raided and later settled in the area of, Staraia Ladoga ("Aldeigjuborg "), Gorodische ("Holmgård "), Novgorod and Kiev, founding the first royal dynasty in the area, and responsible for the importation of Christianity.
		In Russia, which was founded by the people from Rus (the Swedish Roslagen County), millions of people still hold the name Oleg, Olga and Igor - from the names of the Viking gods Helge, Helga and Ingvar.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/family/1155/rulofrus.htm (478 words)

	Muscovite Culture
		A number of stages in the process of cultural history in Rus' from the latter half of the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth centuries can be identified, corresponding to stages of general historical development.
		The second stage (approximately from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-fifteenth centuries) was that of the economic rise of Rus', the strengthening of local governmental structures, the upsurge of Moscow, Tver, Novgorod, Nizhnii Novgorod and Riazan as large and powerful economic and political centers....
		People did not find in the works of Rublev depictions of their contemporaries, or of contemporary events, especially battle victories of the Rus' army.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/classes/muscoviteculture.html (3555 words)

	BAOC history
		The use of name "Byelorussia" was forced upon the ancient Lithuanian nation by the Russians after the annexation of Lithuania at the end of the 18th century, and the name Lithuania was assumed by the province of Samogitia.
		The Orthodox faith accepted from Kiev-Rus' came to be known by the native name of ruskaya vera or "Rus' faith" and its adherents were often referred to as ruskiye lyudi, or "Rus' people".
		The people had to choose either russification in the Russian Orthodox Church or polonization in the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.belarusguide.com /culture1/religion/BAOC.html (2663 words)

	THE CARPATHO-RUSYNS (part 3) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sometime between 896 and 898, a new Asiatic warrior people, the Magyars (ancestors of the modern-day Hungarians), crossed the crests of the Carpathians and settled in the region known as Pannonia, that is, the flat plain between the middle Danube and lower Tisza Rivers.
		Despite their military victory, the Magyars were initially unable to take control of Carpathian Rus', which during the tenth and for most of the eleventh century remained a borderland between the kingdom of Hungary to the south and the Kievan Rus' principality of Galicia to the north.
		Rather, the ancestors of the present-day Carpatho-Rusyns are descendants of: (1) early Slavic peoples who came to the Danubian Basin with the Huns; (2) the White Croats; (3) the Rusyns of Galicia and Podolia; and (4) the Vlachs of Transylvania.
	www.carpatho-rusyn.org /cra/chap3.htm (1510 words)

	Rus: Festivals, Feasts and Events
		People come out at night to see these works of frozen art.
		In times gne by people used to burn a big man made of straw or a dummy much akin to a scarecrow as a way of saying goodbye to the winter.
		While this article does not cover all of the various festivals, events, feasts, etc. of the Rus it is a sampling of the many & varied sorts of social activities one might expect to be caught in if vis...
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/rus_cultures_cuisines/116200 (483 words)

	Rusin, Russian, Ruthenian, Slovak?
		The group of the SLOVANIC people who remained in the Carpathian mountains, (12) invited a RUS' (13), to organize them and establish a government for them so that they might be led by their leaders.
		There are people who do not take pride in their ethnic or linguistic group; they join the majority and feel that they belong to a better class ethnically and linguistically.
		People have many reasons to be named, called by another name and not their own.
	www.lemko.org /lih/slivka.html (11053 words)

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		The Rus prostrates himself before the big carving and says, "O my Lord, I have come from a far land and have with me such and such a number of girls and such and such a number of sables", and he proceeds to enumerate all his other wares.
		When two people among them quarrel and the dissention is prolonged and the king is unable to reconcile them, he commands that they fight with swords; he who wins is right.
		The Rus king's delegation of war- making and civil administration to a lieutenant is not a Norse practice, but rather seems to be borrowed from the practice of the Khagan (King) of the Khazars or other Turkish tribes, who would appoint an official termed a bey for these activities.
	www.angelfire.com /or/svalin/OPW/IbnFadlan.html (5730 words)

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		Her husband brought her, a big city girl forma city of 2.8 million people to a town in the rural South of 800+ people, where everyone made fun of her accent,.
		She was highly trained engineer but could not get a job here. Her husband refused to teach her to drive or allow her to take lessons yet he complained that she was not working.
		I explained to her that the symbol was significant to me because of the weaponry in Viet Nam used against us, because of the relatives that had been killed by Stalinists and because of the propaganda machinery that was a part of the 1950's of American life.
	www.gather.com /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976785998 (1898 words)

	Russia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Overall, the extensive mineral wealth and riches, brings with it both great benefit to the Russian economy and people, and the greater globe, yet also several difficult problems to be dealt with.
		Population is densest in the European part of Russia, in the Ural Mountains area, and in the south-western parts of Siberia; the south-eastern part of Siberia that meets the Pacific Ocean, known as the Russian Far East, is sparsely populated, with its southern part being densest.
		Nearly all of these groups live compactly in their respective regions; Russians and to a lesser extent Tatars are the only people significantly represented in every region of the country.
	vioxx.no-ip.info /en/Russia.htm (6674 words)

	Koza
		The people continued to celebrate the Christmas holidays as before; after all, it was at the same time.
		But the people refused to give up the custom and continued to carol and to drag the he-goat and bear with them.
		The people of Rus disliked not only the concession that she made but the presence of a Median army in Rus.
	home.att.net /~oko/voynich/v-koza.htm (1337 words)

	History of Finland and the Finnish People from ice age to WWII.
		And the Slavic (as nice people as they might be) historians cannot, unfortunately, be trusted with even their own history let alone that of another ethnic group, due to their documented omission and falsification of history to glorify themselves at the expense of other ethnic groups.
		Most Hungarians say their people knew about this southern area for hundreds of years before they actually migrated to settle there, but they waited for the right time to make their move, due to the necessity of fighting off the continuing invasions from the east.
		Place-names were systematically changed to Russian equivalents, and even people's names were not always recorded in their own language but were changed to Russian equivalents so that tracing people from death certificates or old graves is difficult or impossible (especially during the so-called purges, "mass murders" in reality).
	peacecountry0.tripod.com /earlyfin.htm (9092 words)

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