Great map! Thanks for posting it. What this tells you is that from ancient times Russia held on to very disparate peoples by muscle, not inclusion.
Even today, the various peoples that made up Russia do not particularly care for each other.
14 posted on 09/02/2008 4:07:36 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
