Quote Originally Posted by The Blind King of Bohemia
No mate the Rus were the first Russians, they are the same thing.
Weren't the Rus the Scandianvians who conquered the area around Ukraine? I know they became the Russians, but I was under the impression that it was in the same way the Normans in Ireland became Irish, the slow assimilation of the small conquering elite class into the majority population's culture.

I could easily be mistaken, though.