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		grozmovoi on Dec 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poland's Most Famous Dish: Pierogi "Ruskie" vs "Rosyjskie" is a difference between common speech and more proper grammar, but in regular usage of the language they both mean the adjective "Russian". I'm native.

mikrl on Dec 5, 2023 [–]

I assume the average person does not care about what Rus’ means versus Russian, Belarusian, and so on?

Is there a tendency to group them together? As Russians or as Rus’?

There is a lot of cultural context that Western Europeans (inc myself) are not aware of.

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