ruthenia.news

[R_L]

At 16:11 23.02.00 -0400, you wrote:
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>Poster:       Robert De Lossa <rdelossa at FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
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>Anyone out there as perplexed by this use of "Ruthenia" as I am? Comments
>on what "Ruthenia" means to contemporary Russian scholars would be
>appreciated.
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>Best,
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>Rob De Lossa
Dear Rob,
in fact "Ruthenia" was the name of Russian students' corporation in
Yuriev/Dorpat/Tartu.
I've received the letters of many collegues, who expressed their doubts in
our server's name (which is just a quasi-Latin equivalent to "Russia"),
because usually it is assotiated with "Carpato-Ruthenia" (Karpatskaja Rus').
Meanwile, the name of chemical element Ruthenium (discovered by Russian
scientist Karl Klaus :) - http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/ru.html)
has nothing to do with Uzhgorod.
Sincerely,

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Roman Leibov
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Vene kirjanduse kat., Ulikooli 18-a, Tartu Ulikool, Tartu, 50605,
Estonia
Day phone: (3727)375353
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Home address:
Po^hja pst. 17-75. Tartu. 50605. Estonia
Phone: (3727)339478
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http://www.ruthenia.ru/
http://www.ut.ee/teaduskond/Filosoofia/VeneSlaavi/rl.html
http://www.russ.ru/ssylka/
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