According to Vasili Tatishchev, who lived in the 18th century, the Rus's (Rus, Rusi) came from Finland and were of Finnish origin. Tatishchev later based his knowledge on the lost Chronicle of Joakim. Catherine II also came to the same conclusion in her own historical research.
Viktor Paranin has suggested that the "homeland" of the Rus would have been the Karelian Isthmus and the Russians were Baltic Sea Finns . Håkon Stang from the University of Oslo, in his study Naming of Russia (p. 274), thinks that the name Rusi derives from the Baltic Sea word brown, which means red in the eastern languages (cf. Finnish dawn, Ruska, Rusko) The theory is supported by the upper class Karelian and Finnish noblemen of Ladoga and Castlecloth and Novgorod, who used to wear red, purple or russia (Rossia). The old name of Karelia and Käkisalmi comes from "Korela" which is a variant of Kaleva, the Kalevans. Kaleva means red in the languages of Karelia and Kainuu.
In the Soviet Union, and later in Russia, either the western origin of the Russians or their influence on Russian history (the so-called anti-Norman school) has often been questioned. Over the decades, Russian scientists have come up with several alternative theories about the name of the Russians and the origin of the Russians, which Western research does not consider to be realistic.
The most common of these is the claim that the Russians were Slavs from the west or south of the Baltic Sea. Nowadays, Russian research mostly no longer denies Finnish influence.
(In addition, the Swedes have also had divergent opinions on the subject, that are so much associated with race/eugenics, so I will not go there further on that subject in this context.)
In Estonian, Russia is "Venemaa", which should be considered in Finnish, since this name includes the nature of history, "the land of boats. Vene=Boat, Land=maa. The most common, and also known to us is that 'Russia', 'ryss', etc.,
Belarus is an old Baltic lands that became Slavic in the 9th century AD. when the Slavs began to come north and east of Poland.
The Varygians were Finnish Vikings who founded the Kingdom of Kiev, which later became Russ(ian). So the Russ(ians) were Finns.
The Slavs pleaded with the Varyagic Russ(ians) to be their ruler because they could not cope with their quarrels.
Three brothers were chosen for the position: Rurik, Truvor and Sineus. They sailed eastward with their entourage and established the Novgorod Empire, ruled by Rurik in 862, the eldest of the brothers, after the death of their brothers. Rurik died in 879. The land ruled by the Russians was named Rusland, which then became Ryssland. Rurik's relative Oleg Wise took power in Kiev in 882. The city on the Dnieper became the core of what was then "Russia", or rather Kievan Rus, before it was destroyed by the Mongols in 1240. Later, the territory of Ukraine was dominated by Lithuanians, Poles and Russians. Cossack power was greatest in the 16th century.
The Sagas tells of the Slavic slave trade flourishing between the Curonians/Kurs https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuurit and Baltic Finns at the turn of the millennium, the Göeaths also traded the Slavs.
It is important to remember that the Slavs did not spread until later with Russian imperialism to Inkeri, Karelia, etc. Slavs also did not spread to the north until the end of the 15th century and there were no Slavs on the shores of the Gulf of Finland before the 18th century.
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