The «История России» series. Video No. 4. East Slavs, the formation of Rus' (14.09.2025)

The fourth episode of the debunking cycle (a monologue in Russian): an analysis of Part 2 of the second volume of «История России» — “The East Slavs at the end of the 1st millennium AD. The formation of Rus’.” The central thesis: Russian historians systematically hide the history of Ukraine under the label “Eastern Europe” and make it part of the history of Russia, ignoring a well-known criterion — the history of a state is written within its present-day borders. The author records the edition’s self-contradictions: the list of early “towns” (Kyiv, Korosten, Polotsk) lies entirely outside the territory of the Russian Federation, and Moscow is not among them; the edition itself acknowledges that the basin of the Moskva River was “deserted” until the second half of the 11th century, and that the hypothesis of Ladoga as the “first capital of Rus’” (which appears in Medinsky’s school textbooks) received no confirmation. A source for the articles “How Russia rewrites history in its textbooks” and “How ‘Rus” became ‘Russia’.”