The Russian people have not lived a single day of their history in their national state. And all because he never had his own nation state. Already the ancestors of modern Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians - the Old Russian people - were pronounced. imperial people. Kievan Rus is a typical empire: a multinational state in which one people dominates the rest. Since the time of Oleg and Igor, Russia has developed as a state in which the tribes of Finno-Ugric, Baltic and Slavic roots lived and mixed. And the ancient Russians dominated him in politics, economics and culture.