- Vikings called themselves the Rus. (Source)
- Kyivan Rus’ was the first East Slavic state. (Source)
- The Principality of Kyiv was the political center of Kyivan Rus’. (Source)
- The Principality of Kyiv was founded on the location of contemporary Kyiv, Ukraine. (Source)
- On 22 October 1721, the Muscovian Tsar Peter I declared the Muscovy Kingdom to be the “Russian” Empire. (Source)
- In order to put an end to this name stealing, a Ukrainian petition proposed the following name corrections. (Source)
