The Rus.............that the Arabic explorer Ibn Fadlan met in the 900s ad...........from west of the Ural mountains..........the Volga river and its tributaries...........conquered clear to the Pacific coast...........took Japan's north most island on the last day of WW2.......... a rather big one........Sakhalin (sp?)...............they even took Alaska from the Inuits..............got into what is now Canada............into the Cali coast..........all the way down and into Baja Ca...........in Mexico..........

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The history of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples. The state of Garðaríki ("the realm of towns"), which was centered in ...

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This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To read about ...
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HISTORY OF RUSSIA including Slavs in Russia, Vikings in Russia, The firstRussians.

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History of Russia W ith the dissolution of the Soviet Union there has been an enormous resurgence of interest in Russia's pre-Soviet past, as well as a great deal ...

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Resources. Few nations have as colorful and vivid a history as Russia. At times torn between the East and the West, sometimes buffering the two, Russia has ...
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