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 …

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 …

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 …

The Rus are a people described in historical documents as traders and chiefs who were instrumental in the formation of the ancient Russian state between a.d. 750 and 1000.

Dec 3, 2018 · Kievan Rus (862 to 1242) was a medieval political federation located in modern-day Belarus, Ukraine, and part of Russia (the latter named for the Rus, a Scandinavian people).

Kyivan Rus was the first East Slavic state. It reached its peak in the early to mid-11th century.

The word Rus ' or Rus referred initially to a group of Scandinavian Vikings, also known as Varangians, who founded the medieval state of Kievan Rus' in Eastern Europe in the 10th century.

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 area between the lakes was the original Rus, and it was from here that its name was transferred to the territories inhabited by the Slavs on the middle Dnieper, which eventually became the "land of …