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In spite of the thriving trade, Novgorod had numerous conflicts with the League which were usually caused by disagreement on terms of exchange, violations of the rules of trade and attacks on merchants. A trade war from 1385–1391 was concluded by Niebur 's peace treaty which set the terms of trade. The treaty gave merchants the right of free ...
The trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks was a medieval trade route that connected Scandinavia, Kievan Rus' and the Eastern Roman Empire. The route allowed merchants along its length to establish a direct prosperous trade with the Empire, and prompted some of them to settle in the territories of present-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
Kuna is a weight and monetary unit, as well as the name of the coins used in Kievan Rus' and the Russian lands from the 10th to 15th centuries. The circulation of money in Rus' arose at the beginning of the 9th century due to the massive penetration into the Rus' lands of the eastern dirham weighing 2.73 g which gets the name "Kuna".
Round grivna (about 200 g (0.44 lb)) Triangular Novgorod grivnas excavated near Koporye Kievan rhombic grivna A hoard of rhombic Kievan grivnas at Moscow State Historical Museum. The grivna (Old East Slavic: гривьна) was a currency as well as a measure of weight used in Kievan Rus' and other states in Eastern Europe from the 11th century ...
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The Rus'–Byzantine Treaty of 911 is the most comprehensive and detailed treaty which was allegedly concluded between the Byzantine Empire and Kievan Rus' in the early 10th century. [citation needed] It was preceded by the preliminary [citation needed] treaty of 907. It is considered the earliest written source of Kievan Rus' law.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other U.S. residents freed from Russian are starting on the road to recovery at a Texas military hospital.
BOSTON (Reuters) -A Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in a U.S. prison after being convicted of participating in a $93 million insider-trading ...