Talk:Irene Smirnoff/@comment-856627-20150304002045/@comment-27324112-20161015011246

You asked this more than 2 years ago and probably ound the answer by yourself, but here it comes: Russia is pretty old. It is not like China (4 milennia), but is very old. Not Russia itself, I mean, but there have been countries in the current Western Russia who were there a thousand years ago. To answer how old RUSSIA is is pretty hard, since the country we know currently started, well, after the fall of the URSS. But the Principality of Kiev, one of the first Slavic countries, which stablished Russian culture by synthesising (did I wrote this right?) Slavic and Byzantine cultures (at least according to Her Highness Wikipedia), was stablished in IX century (almost sure this is not used in English, but oh well).

But yeah. In a sense, Russia is damn old; in another sense, damn young.

So I wrote this based mainly in my own knowledge and some things I've read HHW. I am sure there is someone in this wiki who can answer you better than I did, but I tried :) (two years late, but, again, oh well).