Re: Slavic Ethnogenesis
Interesting write up but in some areas difficient.
The treatment of Russia and Russian language needs revision, in particular there should be a division between the Novgorod language and the language that spread into Moscovy which was taken up by ethnically nonslav peoples.
They spell Ukrainian wrong and have catagorised Rusyn's as a seperate people rather than a subgroup, (something that has quite recent and in dispute) while at the same time uniting Serbs and Croatians????
The use of the term Old Russian is also incorrect It should be Rus', Old Rus'
There is a difference between the terms Rossiya and Rus' however here both are translated as Russia which smacks of Imperial Russian thinking.
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