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Russian can mean:

• Russians, an ethnic group
• Russian language
• an adjective for Russia

Etymology

"Russian" originally meant "belonging to Rus'"; Rus' originally was a Slavonic word for the Varangians and other Scandinavians who set up a kingdom centered on Kiev; then for the kingdom that they set up; then the name was gradually transferred to the area's native Slavonic population.

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