Peedeex- You've scooped all the media outlets so far on coverage of this not-so-little known historical tid-bit about the Kievan Rus. That said, the actions and rhetoric coming from Peterburg... I mean Moskva are all too reminiscent of both early 1914 and the more recent manipulative rhetoric that issued from the old CPUSSR, as personified by Tsar...I mean President V.V.Putina. Plus ca change, c'est la meme chose in power politics.