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The Rus and the Hazars
"What we name things does have a certain power, and there's a tendency to say what something is named now. Must reveal something essential about it," he says. "This brings us to the special case that we're going to land on, which is the case of the Rus." The reason they were called Rus, no one is quite sure,. It's close to a Finnish word, which means rudder. So, our best guess is that modern Russia is named after an old Finnish word for a rudder.
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