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the greeks had no problem lumping russians together with the scythians and sarmats and call it ROS, it's only modern herstorian basedboys that think the universe started with nomadic turks from le steppe

>He decided therefore not to run any risks in impassable and danger-
ous territory. So he took the army and returned to Byzantium;4 3 and
after honoring with the rank of patrikios a particularly impulsive and
hot-headed man named Kalokyres,44 he sent him to the Tauroscythians
(who are usually called Russians in the popular language)45 to distribute to them the gold that he entrusted to him, a sum of 15 kentenaria,46 and
lead them to Mysian territory to conquer it. " The History of Leo the Deacon, Book IV, chapter 6, https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~sullivan/LeoTheDeacon.pdf