>Essentially, Fomenko believes that all of recorded history has occurred since 800 AD, with the vast majority happening since 1000 AD. The original Russian sta

>Essentially, Fomenko believes that all of recorded history has occurred since 800 AD, with the vast majority happening since 1000 AD. The original Russian state of Kievan Rus was started at about that time. Before that there were no "Russian" anything. It just didn't exist. The Fomenko's timeline solves major fundamental problem of the Russian Greatest country on Earth Messianic mentality - how could the world's civilization had been developed for millennia without Russia? That would mean that the Russia is a latecomer who needs to study hard to try to get to the level instead of being the leader/driver that it feels like.