where do the russian people originate from
According to most ethnologists ethnic Russians originated from the earlier Rus' people (East Slavs of Kievan Rus), and gradually evolved into a different ethnicity from the western Rus people who became the modern-day Belarusians and Ukrainians.owever, the origin of the Slavic peoples is itself a matter on which there is no consensus.. Russians: Emergence of Russian ethnicity : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians#Em...