… is something I have never heard anyone say. But by Putin’s logic, I guess we have every right to claim St Petersburg (Nyen in Ingria). By the way, the “Rus” in Russia (probably) comes from the Vikings from Roslagen in Sweden, known as “the Rus”.
Which today, of course, means absolutely nothing.
Map of the Swedish kingdom in the 1600’s.
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