Ruthenia vs Russia

[Ilon Fraiman]

> In Belarusian language the distinction is crystal clear:
>
> 1) Ruthenia (en) = Rus' (by) - and it refers to the dukedoms
> of Kyiw, Polacak, Turaw, Czarnihow, Smalensk, Novharad. (Of them
> only Novogorod can be considered Russian in the modern sense of this
> word).
What about Smolensk?

Ilon Fraiman.

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