What has happened is that the Rus were one people. When Kiev fell, Rus was splintered into different states, eventually much of it was centred on Vladimir-Suzdal and then Moscow. The west fell under … (View Post)

My theory is that roads which are named after their destination take the article, effectively "the road to Balls Pond". Streets don't normally go anywhere and are more purely intra-urban in… (View Post)

The Lebanon used to be common. We still use it for countries named after geographical features (the Congo, the Sudan). Kyiv is indeed Ukrainian and many of the locals have Ukrainian as a first langua… (View Post)

Actually none of the other reenactors like them. They tend to get tripped over, beer spilled etc. We didn't mind people dressing as Wehrmacht, after all you need an enemy, but SS seemed beyond the pa… (View Post)

Sanctions at a level that can destroy the Russian economy would be my choice. Freeze the assets of all Russians in London and arrest the oligarchs and question them on suspicion of corruption and/or … (View Post)