Map showing the major Varangian trade routes: the Volga trade route (in red) and the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks (in purple). Sufficiently controlling strongholds, market …

USDA's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) provides financing for much needed infrastructure improvements to rural communities. These include water and waste treatment, electric power, …

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 …

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) provides funding for the development of rural utilities infrastructure such as water, waste management, power and telecommunications.

The Rus are a people described in historical documents as traders and chiefs who were instrumental in the formation of the ancient Russian state between a.d. 750 and 1000.

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 …

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is a subdivision of the Department of Agriculture responsible for providing financing to improve utilities infrastructure in rural areas.

The Rus', also known as Russes, were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly origina...

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 Rus’ were a proud and unique people of mixed ethnic and cultural origin. They took to state-building along the many rivers of Eastern Europe – chiefly the Volga and the Dnieper.