USDA's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) provides financing for much needed infrastructure improvements to rural communities. These include water and waste treatment, electric power, telecommunication and broadband services.
Rus ' is generally considered to be a borrowing from Finnic Ruotsi ("Sweden"). [8][9][10] There are two theories behind the origin of Rus ' / Ruotsi, which are not mutually exclusive.
Russian scholars, along with some Westerners, consider the Rus to be a southeastern Slavic tribe that founded a tribal league; the Kievan state, they affirm, was the creation of Slavs and was attacked and held only briefly by Varangians.
The Kievan Rus’ were a powerful people created by Viking invaders who ruled the Slavic tribes around the Baltic Sea and, in a way, became Slavs themselves. Their rule ultimately came to an end through family infighting and greed but contributed greatly to the rise of the Russian Empire.
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Originally referring to Scandinavian traders, the name "Rus" soon came to mean any member of the urban ruling class, who collected tribute from the peoples settled in early Russia. Both the early Rus traders and the later Rus chieftains were active in and associated with towns.
The area between the lakes was the original Rus, and it was from here that its name was transferred to the territories inhabited by the Slavs on the middle Dnieper, which eventually became the "land of Rus" (Ruskaja zemlja).