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Rurik

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Medieval Varangian ruler whose 862 accession in Novgorod was cited by Putin as the beginning of Russian history

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"And Putin is like "to answer that we must start with Rurik's accession in Novgorod 862" and he straight up gives a 30 min lecture on Russian-Ukrainian history going through the Mongol conquests and the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth."
Tucker Putin interview is a banger · u/victorian_secrets · ↑819 · 2024-02-09
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