Comments by "Marcus Aurelius Antoninus" (@marcusaureliusantoninus2597) on "TED-Ed" channel.

@rensselaer "wrong" because a random person in XXI century said it? Pfff...
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This is bullshit. Slavs constitute about 90% of modern Russia's population.
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Russians are Slavs. If we count as small an amount of a "foreign" blood as Russians have, then there are no "pure" Slavs at all... Then Belorussians are a "mix of Baltic people and Slavs", Ukrainians are a "mix of Turks and Slavs", the Czech are a "mix of Germanic people and Slavs", not to mention Bulgarians or Serbs.
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***** ... and one thing, but hush! - don't tell anyone! - do you REALLY think there is but one state in Europe whose "nationalistic" history wasn't "written"? Do you really think there's at least one state whose official history is "honest" and in no way propagandist? If you think so, you must be very naїve, my friend.
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False. The term "Russia" was coined by the Greeks in as early as the X century.
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@rensselaer beg your pardon?
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***** Oh, now with "Moskovia" I see which way the wind blows. The Ukraine or Belorussia, I presume? Just for the record. my friend - in English it's either "Moscovia" or "Muscovy". Did we have to have all this genetical talk, since all you wanted was just to assert your political stance, not find the truth? Funny is that what you call "false" history is a mainstream context of both Russian and Western European academic books on the history of Russia, while "true" history is only known to some Ukrainian or Belorussian nationalists. Must be another global conspiracy, no less.
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Not "impure", but actually impure. Purity of vestals was a most important aspect of Roman religion, so quotation marks of yours are out of place.
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 @cocolacecoco4200 Holy Mary in canonical Christian church is held in higher regard than archangels and seraphims, not to mention higher than any prophet.
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***** Northern Russians are as close to the Finns as to the Swedes and Baltic people. While the absolute Russian majority are parts of the same gene claster as the Poles, Belorussians, Ukrainians. In general, the percentage on "non-European" genetic markers in the DNA of the Russians is about 2%, that is much less than of many other European peoples.
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***** Y-chromosome is exactly what I'm talking about. It makes about 11-46% among Northern Russians - which group is an absolute minority among the three Russian subgroups. Central and Southern Russians are almost genetically identical to Poles and to some extent to Belorussians and Ukrainians (with former having a large Baltic imprint, and latter - Turkic). Also, if we call R1a "Slavic", then the Kyrgyz people must be the most Slavic. Not to mention it's utterly amateur to rigidly bind some haplogroups to specific language groups ("N is Finno-Ugric", "R1a is Slavic" and so on).
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***** This is just not true, that I´ve shown already, being supported by the figures. Once more - rather high percentage of Finnish and Scandinavian haplogroups is found ONLY within Northern Russians which are an absolute minority in Russia. The Russian North is a rather scracely populated area.Its Russian population is about 5,5 million people, which makes roughly 5% of the entire Russian population.
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***** 1. 46% of N1c is found only within a subethnic group of Northern Russians called "the Pomors" - in the research they were labelled "test group "Mezen". They are a minority even among Northern Russians. Other Northern Russian groups - test groups "Pinega", "Krasnoborsk", "Vologda", "Unzha", "Ostrov" and "Porkhov" - have a percentage of N1c at from 36% ("Krasnoborsk") to 15% ("Porkhov"). 2. Central and Southern Russians have N1c from 13% (test groups "Roslavl" and "Pristen") to 4,5% (!) (test group "Livny"). In Russia there's 1 of 2 spots where the distribution of R1a reaches 60% (the 2nd one is in Poland). Even if we mathematically calculated the arithmetical mean of "Asian" N1c and "Slavic" R1a among all Russian test groups, it would be about 18% for the former and 47% (higher than this of Belorussians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Czechs and Slovens, not to mention Serbs or Bulgarians) for the latter, thus not giving us any ground to call Russians "a mix of Slavs and Finno-Ugric peoples". Russian people are more "Slavic" than most other Slavic nations. After all, it's absolutely pointless to dig into genetics when we can assess cultural and linguistic parameters, which make a far better ground for telling if a nation is "Slavic" or not. Not to mention, being "Slavic" or "non-Slavic" doesn't make any people better or worse.
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***** That is a kind of pseudo-historic conspiracy theory, and I wouldn't even ask for sources. These lands were Russian even before the terms "Ukrainian" and "Belorussian" were coined. It's funny how quickly you switched from genetics to some vague claims about Russians being "non-Russian". But all your claims are broken by one word - "census". According to it, 82% of the entire population of RF is RUSSIAN, incuding Central and Southern Russia. In Roslavl and Pristen the absolute majority of population is RUSSIAN. Not to mention the research was conducted only on ethnic Russians, so it was physically impossible that some stray Ukrainians or Belorussians got into it. Yeah, Lithunia and, later, the Commonwealth, occupied parts of Russia, but these lands were taken back by the Tzars. That doesn't make the population of these lands less Russian.
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MrZapparin That's why I was using quotation marks.
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