Quote Originally Posted by Foot View Post
Armenians and Georgians are not slavs at all. They are from the Caucasus mountains and Anatolia, from an ancient people who had lived there for centuries. The Baltic tribes at this time (which I imagine the slavic culture was descended from) leave very little in the archaelogical record which suggests that they were in any way unified to a level that would allow us to represent them as a political unit.

Foot
then how do you suppose they all speak the russian group of languages and use the cyrillic alphabet? plus, if records of my people (Belorussians) are correct, Minsk existed for over 2500 years! The Kievan Rus didn't come till the vikings, but there were slavs at that time.