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This project targets to remove systematic anti-Russian bias in many articles related to Russian history and to reach consistency through Wikipedia.

Several steps are proposed:

1. To enlist articles anyhow related to Russian history.
2. To enlist strong facts about Russian history (by consensus).
3. To check Wikipedia policies and precedent statistics for similar issues.
4. To elaborate recommendations for articles anyhow related to Russian history.
5. To fix articles anyhow related to conform these recommendations.
6. To repeat this cycle many time through the Wikipedia lifespan.

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Contents 1 Alphabetical list of articles anyhow related to Russian History 2 Facts about Russian History 2.1 Chronological list of strong undisputable facts 2.2 Chronological list of disputable facts 3 Conclusions and recomendations 4 References

[edit] Alphabetical list of articles anyhow related to Russian History

Created to link all articles related to the project.

Chechnya - History of post-communist Russia - History of Russia - History of the Soviet Union - Imperial Russia - Kievan Rus' - Mongol invasion of Russia - Muscovy - Rurik - Russia - Russian Civil War - Russian Revolution - Russians - Ruthenia - Ruthenian language - Ruthenians - Treaty of Pereyaslav - Ukraine - Union of Brest - Cossack - Wars of the Soviet Union - Wars of Russia

[edit] Facts about Russian History

[edit] Chronological list of strong undisputable facts

• Novgorod was the first capital of Rus.

It is uncertain as there had been Rus in Southern Russia before Varangians, according to Greek chroniclers Goliath74 18:41, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Emelyan Pritsak suggests first Rus capital on Don Goliath74 18:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

A strong Slavic kingdom based on Rivers Ros and Dnieper existed prior to the arrival of varangians. Slavic (mostly Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian) historians see Rus there. Goliath74 18:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

• Cities like Rostov, Vladimir, Suzdal, Yaroslavl, Smolensk, Novgorod were among vital centers of Kievan Rus.
• Throughout all later history and regardless of feudal divisions people of principalities of today's Russian Federation continued to call all ethnic Russian lands "Rus".
• There was no cultural or linguistic difference between South-Western Rus and North-Eeastern Rus until 13th century.

This contradicts the works of Zaliznyak, see Old Novgorod dialect. Trapolator 04:48, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It appears residents of Kiev spoke a somewhat Ukrainian-looking dialect back in 12th century Goliath74 18:43, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

• The today's Russian state is one of the three successors of Kievan Rus, along with Belarus and Ukraine.

[edit] Chronological list of disputable facts

List of facts and assertions that often lead to disputes and inconsistencies within Wikipedia. To be discussed, properly attibuted, and moved to previous section.

• "Modern Russia has nothing common with ancient KIEVAN Rus' and all heritage of KIEVAN Rus' belongs exclusively to Ukraine, Belorussia, and Poland!!! Modern Ukraine and Belarus are the sole succesors of Kievian Rus'. Russians are barely a new ethnic group created as an effect of Tatar political, cultural and ethnic influence between 13th and 15th centuries."

• "Possible comparison: Modern Russia is successor of KIEVAN Rus' in the same way as Modern Romania is successor of Roman Empire.The name itself can be quite misleading."

[edit] Conclusions and recomendations

List of conclusions and recommendations to those who write on Russian history.

• If someone changes any article anyhow related to Russian history to be biased, please adjust or revert these changes, pointing to this Russian History Harmonization project, inviting the changer to make changes and reach consensus here before editing any specific article in biased manner.

It should always be kept in mind that no texts of Kievan Rus' (or later) were written in "Old Church Slavonic". The preferred term for the language of Kievan Rus' is "Old East Slavic". Again, Old Church Slavonic is only appropriate for very early texts from Bulgaria (or Macedonia).

[edit] References

Dispute resolution - Neutral_point_of_view - Wikiprojects