Sentence examples for rus as from inspiring English sources

The catalyst for this was Ukraine.Mr Putin, who once called the collapse of the Soviet Union "a geopolitical disaster", has long been loth to accept the notion of Ukraine, the medieval cradle of Kievan Rus, as a truly independent country.

The Kingdom of Rus, as it was originally known, came about as a synthesis of human groups and cultural characteristics that seemed as fit to go together as fire and water.

In an attempt to head off the sort of familial bloodshed that had prefaced his own rise to power, Yaroslav introduced an order of succession that privileged seniority but held that the territory of Kievan Rus as a whole belonged to the family.

It was noted that early Arabian writers had represented the seat of Rus as an island covered with woods and marshes; excavations of 9th- and 10th-century tumuli confirmed the presence of Norse warriors in such a region around Lake Ilmen, near the ancient town of Novgorod, and Lake Ladoga, where the Neva River has its origin.

This traditional dating has been challenged by some historians, who point out that it is inconsistent with such other sources as the Schechter Letter, which mentions the activities of certain khagan HLGW of Rus' as late the 940s, during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Romanus I.

The W8 [wait] was the name of the research project commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Health to evaluate the effectiveness of the school-based alcohol intervention, "Unge & Rus", as it is implemented among all 8th grade students in Oslo, the capital of Norway.

Offstage he was stolid – as blockish as Stravinsky's wooden Petrushka or, according to the sniffy socialites who patronised the Ballets Russes, as unimpressive as a shop assistant, a plumber's apprentice or a stable lad.

Misia also introduced Diaghilev to Coco Chanel in 1920, and Chanel began to work with the Ballets Russes as well.

The company that Vicky dances for is based on Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and, as is not the case in the movie, we get versions of just about every kind of piece that the troupe performed: "Les Sylphides," "The Afternoon of a Faun," "Le Train Bleu" (the beach ballet).

His mother, the dowager, was a patron of the arts, and entertained Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at Wilbury; as a child, Peter was encouraged to admire all things Russian.

Diaghilev used the Ballets Russes as a vehicle for promoting synthesis of the arts in a bid to overcome the fragmentation characteristic of the 19th century.