Talk:East Slavs

message: I reverted the following change of the intro, made by genyo.
:The East Slavs are the ethnic group that evolved into the Belarusian and Ukrainian peoples. They also contributed a large linguistic component and and a minority ethnic component of the Russian people. Each of the many nationalities of Rus' has a separate history and complex origins. The historical origins of the Russian state, however, are chiefly those of the East Slav minority and the assimilated Finno-Ugric majority people of the North-Eastern Europe.
This theory is widely propagandized in modern nationalistic Ukrainian history. It even entered into Ukrainian school textbooks. Poor Russians. A century ago this people was attempted to be made from barbaric Huns, now they turn out to be ground-dugout dwelling finns. What next? Shipwrecked Martians turned into troglodytes? 
If one wants to propagate this theory, this should be done at the main, Russians, page, where it can be compared against other theories, and only then into various summary and refernce pages. And as usual, Russians are nochalantly neglecting themselves. Mikkalai 03:42, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finns 

message: Shouldn't the first of the twelfe "plemen" be spelled as "Polyans" (like Drevlyans) instead of "Polans" Goliath74 18:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: "Polans" and "Polians" seem to be more common: , , . —Preceding unsigned comment added by AndriyK (talk • contribs) 19:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Polans or Polyans?

message: There's nothing controversial about it being a forgery. Get rid of the reference. This is a reputable article. And, hopefully, a reputable encyclopedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dennv (talk • contribs) 18:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Book of Veles is a forgery 

message: This image is biased. It presents the early slavs wearing a costume wich appeared much later in SOME slavic countries, where Romanian ethnographic influences occured: Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine (Hutsuls), Poland (Gorals), Slovakia (Moravian Wallachia) (see Vlachs). Slovenia, Eastern Ukraine, northern Poland, Bielorussia, Russia and other slavic peoples (Serboi, Wends, etc) don`t present these elements. And they never did. Slavic peoples were influenced by the people they camed in contact with and mixed. Some with Romanians (hence the variants of the costumes), others were influenced by asiatic (tartar) costumes, while other never had a "traditional costume"... Greier 13:47, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Slavic Settlement

message: Cossaks are not a tribe!!! Who wrote that? Cossaks were free mercenaries who roamed the steppes of Ukraine at the beginning. After that they established they headquater (Sich) on the island of Khortytsia which is surrounded by Dnipro river. They colonized the less populated lands , establishing the new communities (lower Volga river and the Ural montains). After the destruction of Sich by the Russian empire they ran to lower Danube, lower Don, and Poland. Ekaterine the Great offered them an alternative to settle in Kuban. This way she would gain the well-developed agricultural lands and have military protection from the Caucasian region and Turks in the face of Cossaks. Anyway, calling Cossaks a Russian tribe is way off, considering the fact that they take their roots from Ukraine.
Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 15:57, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cossaks?! 

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message: from orgin in czech "Slovan" or in polish "Słowianin" after "słowa" which means "words". Slavs - people of words  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.144.75.106 (talk) 13:33, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Slava - Glory/Fame. Slavs (Slavyane) - Glorious people. UeArtemis (talk) 13:30, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Or the "spoken word" if with "-en" form. The Big Hoof! (talk) 09:06, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of "Slav"

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There's been a bit of re-jigging of the image description for the map depicting the maximum territory inhabited by the East Slavic tribes in the 8th and 9th centuries. The long-standing description was a mess, further exacerbated by good faith attempts to 'fix' it here and here.
Firstly, using Halecki was WP:SYNTH in context. He did not describe it as the first East Slavic 'realm'. Any of the territory inhabited by any one of the tribes is a 'realm'. Kievan Rus' was the first state/polity described as being organised as such according to Western standards. Secondly, the description did not match that which is depicted in the map, reading as:  became , whereas what is depicted is 
If anyone wishes to discuss these changes, or can think of how to improve the description to make it terse, please feel free to continue this thread. Thanks. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 03:22, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  East Slavic realm? 

message: I've just reverted the introduction of a map of Eastern Slavic countries here. I'd consider it misleading for the reader as it does not represent the ethnic groups identified as East Slavic, but the borders of contemporary nation-states. These countries also surround other ethnic groups (particularly Siberia,, Crimea, etc.) who are found exclusively in the vast area depicted. Use of the map in the infobox implies that the territory depicted inhabited - wall to wall - by East Slavs. Any other editor input on this issue? --Iryna Harpy (talk) 02:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: - there is no such statement in the map legend. The map correctly reflects the contemporary countries where an East Slavic language is the national language, no more. Perhaps, there will be only a small refinement.--Nicoljaus (talk) 09:48, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest to restore the map, but with caption "Countries with predominantly East Slavic population". 20:56, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

text:  --the statement is wrong, because Russian is one of the two official languages is Kazakhstan as well. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:56, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not a completely correct statement. According to their Conctitution: "The state language of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be the Kazak language." They used Russian officially, but it's not their national language. I agree with the caption "Countries with predominantly East Slavic population".--Nicoljaus (talk) 08:07, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

text: Maps are more visible, there are usually maps are used. See West Slavs for example. Or do you mean making a table in addition to the map? --Nicoljaus (talk) 08:07, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  East Slavic ethnic groups being depicted by use of modern nation-state map 

message: It is currently being proposed that Category:Slavic countries and territories be deleted. This article is related to that category. The relevant discussion is located at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 January 8#Countries and territories by language family. The discussion would benefit from input from editors with a knowledge of and interest in East Slavs. Krakkos (talk) 11:18, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion of [[:Category:Slavic countries and territories|Category:Slavic countries and territories]] 

message: Quoting source pages 20 and 23: "румыны и аромуны лингвистически принадлежат к романской группе, но генетически обособлены"....(
"Romanians and Aromanians linguistically belong to the Romance group, but are genetically isolated"...) and "В "восточно-европейский" кластер вошли западные и восточные славяне, балты, а так же балканские народы" (
"The "Eastern European" cluster included Western and Eastern Slavs, Balts, as well as the Balkan peoples"). 
Of course I used a translator, but even so it cannot be denied that the source says exactly the opposite. Emenrigen (talk) 12:05, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genetics 2.0 

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