What do you call the people of Russia?

Answer 1

added: bulgarian rus (tow-head), сzech rusy (light), slovensky rus (red), latin russus (red)

The name has occurred from Varangians rus, called by the Novgorod Slavs in 862 year as a military team. They have put things in order and have created the first centralised government. As the state name is mentioned for the first time in the text of the Russian-Byzantian CONTRACT 911 years. The name Russia is used much late, in XV century. The people who originally settled the area were known as the "Rus", so the the land became known as the land of the Rus. The Russian word for Russia is "Rossiya", the German word for Russia is "Rusland".

Answer 2

Well, be more specific, and if my response doesn't answer your question, put a message on my message board.

The word people in Russian

(Russian Word on Left, Roman Letters on Right)

народ-Narad

нация-Natsiya

население-Nasyeleniye

жители-Zhityelee

родные-Rodnihye

родственники-Rodstveneekee

"Russian Person/People" in Russian

российский человек-Raseeyskee chyelavyek

русская-Rooskaya

русский язык-Rooskee yazihk

русский-Rooskee

российские люди-Raseeskyeh loodee

Sorry, but that is all the Russian vocabulary i know about these words... .

Answer 3

Россия which sounds sort of like "rice-ee- ya" with the stress placed on the "see" sounding portion of the word.