Almost seventy years ago, on May 22, 1949, an incident occurred that gave the science of psychiatry a new term - “Forrestal syndrome.” Named after James Forrestal, the first US Secretary of Defense, who committed suicide in a naval hospital shouting “The Russians are coming!”
They say that the general was not all right in his head - he saw enemies, Russian spies and conspiracies everywhere. As a result, I scared myself to death...
What is happening now in America and a number of European countries is very similar to the “Forrestal syndrome” epidemic. Anti-Russian hysteria has reached such a level there that, willy-nilly, you begin to fear for the mental health of the entire Western civilization. Russia is to blame for everything, simply because it exists.
Well, God, as they say, is with them. Let them go crazy with fear or anger...
However, in all this “monotony of feelings” addressed to us, there is one point that cannot but be alarming. Therefore, in the last century, humanity paid for it with millions of lives.
This refers to the Nazi racial theory of “superior” and “inferior” races, with its pseudoscientific idea that the superiority of some and the inferiority of others are due to biological nature. That is, there are “genetically correct” nations, and there are “genetic garbage”.
On this “formula” the Nazis built a gigantic death machine to exterminate entire nations. Jews, Gypsies, Slavs - primarily Russians and Poles - were subject to extermination as “inferior” races, from the point of view of the ideologists of German Nazism.
In Nuremberg, during the tribunal (1945−1946) of Nazi criminals, this misanthropic theory was recognized as unscientific and condemned, like its followers.
And today we again hear speeches about “wrong genetics.” And they sound exclusively to Russians, who, it turns out, have a “genetic inclination” to deception and lies.
For example, former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper thinks so.
“Everything we know about the Russians: how they interfered in our elections, and in general what the Russians are used to doing, who are almost at a genetic level inclined and committed to deception, infiltration, assimilation, extraction of benefits and all that stuff. So we have something to be concerned about."- quotes the speech of a retired American general on NBC's Russian Spring.
And the famous Senator McCain, in an interview with Australians, recently frightened the world that the Russians are more dangerous than ISIS *.
What is there to be surprised when the Ukrainian authorities are trying to portray the residents of Donbass as “genetically defective”, many of whom, by the way, also consider themselves Russian. Students in pathological Russophobia have long surpassed their overseas teachers.
One can, of course, explain all this by progressive insanity or paranoia of individuals.
But is this the only reason that they want to turn Russians into “world evil” today?
“SP” addressed this and other questions to the General Director of the Institute of Regional Problems, political scientist Dmitry Zhuravlev:
First, although American ideology has never been based on genetics, until recently. Simply because its foundations were laid in the eighteenth century, when genetics did not yet exist. No. Even Mendelian. But the thesis “God is with us!”, it has always been there. That is, the idea of the American nation being chosen by God has always been there. In this sense, they differ from Hitler in only one way - they did not use genetic theory to prove this thesis.
Yes, they were not looking for a biological basis. But they didn’t look for it, not because they were so fundamentally better. But because they were so confident in their superiority that they did not consider it necessary to prove it.
As for Ukraine, the guys want to show their uniqueness so much that they are ready to admit the genetic inferiority of all humanity, except for them and the Americans. This is a problem. For young countries this is generally a very difficult problem: how to differentiate yourself? And in conditions of war psychosis, it takes on such ugly forms. Moreover, the basis of the ideology of modern Ukraine is the OUN-UPA**, whose leaders, in general, have not gone far from Hitler.
Why are Russians the target of this genetic insanity?
In Ukraine it’s clear. The most terrible enemy. Crimea was “taken away”. Donbass - “conquered”. But for some reason we constantly feed the “great Ukrainian nation.”
Here, by the way, one of their observers said that “we must apply sanctions to Russia, and Russia has no right to apply sanctions to Ukraine. Because Russia is an aggressor, but Ukraine is not.” And this is completely serious - the man did not see any problem in his words.
- Everything has been clear with Ukraine for a long time. But other countries, where there seems to be no reason for psychosis, why are they going crazy?
Because for them we are different. We are white, but different.
That is, two reasons. Firstly, the fact that, despite our external similarity, we give completely different cultural codes. This is really, really scary. The second reason: we are the only country in the world that is capable of inflicting unacceptable military damage on America. This reason has nothing to do with culture or nation. It is purely military and political.
And therefore, we are, in principle, to blame. Even if, like in the “nineties,” we shout at all corners that “America is the best!”, “We must live like in America!”, “We will do everything to live like in America!”
Only if we behaved like in the 90s, then only the generals would be afraid of us. And if we behave as we do now, and do not give out the codes they are accustomed to, then it is not only the generals who are afraid of us. But almost the entire elite.
Why does this happen in the form of psychosis? Because there is a clear degradation of modern elites. In reality, this is a much more serious issue.
The fact is that practically since 1945, the world for the West has been quite stable. And the elites of stable times are the elites who did nothing. Because the elite is a “mechanism” for ensuring stability.
If this stability already exists, then the elite stops working. And any structure that ceases to fulfill its function begins to degrade. Because if there are functions, then we are forced to attract worthy people to implement this function. When there is no function, they attract not the worthy ones, but the most convenient ones. Usually the most convenient ones are idiots.
The second side of the same coin is liberal ideology itself.
- In what sense?
In the sense that liberal ideology today is very different from the liberalism of the nineteenth century, when it was a fairly rational theory. That is, nineteenth-century liberalism says that a person should be free from power - the state should not limit human freedom (well, within some limits). The current one is that a person should be free from society.
Here I am - and there is nothing else. If there is “something”, it’s his problem, don’t let it bother me. This “something” - be it faith, family, social relations, economics - does not concern me. There is only my navel, I look at it, and I am great.
Such an ideological basis cannot create anything other than psychiatric problems. Because a person is never truly free from society. If he considers himself to be one, then he should call a doctor.
That is, the current Western liberal ideology generates psychosis in itself. And our otherness lies precisely in our reluctance to accept it. And this just causes angry hysteria.
We are infidels. After all, liberal ideology in its current form can only exist as a “religion.” And if we do not accept it, then we will be treated as people who believe incorrectly.
- Are we heretics for them?
Yes. And the attitude towards heretics is always an emotional one. This is how they treat us. In this sense, everything is clear.
The question is, what to do about it? In your mind, what to do with the sick? They need to be treated. You can't argue with that. After all, what is a crazy person? If you could stop him, say: “No, the Russians are not coming”... But if you turn away, he will still do something to himself.
- But if the same Hitler had been stopped in time, this infection would not have spread throughout Europe...
That's another question. Crazy people need to be limited. If madness is a private matter, it is treated - and well. And if madness turns into a form of state policy, then the result is just the Nazi Reich.
If Hitler sat privately at home and talked about the greatness of the German nation, it would be offensive. But nothing more. But if this turns into a basis for making political decisions, it is very dangerous.
Fortunately, despite the fact that Russophobia is a widespread phenomenon in Western society, there are still quite a lot of sensible people there. They may not like us. But in order for their dislike for us to turn into a basis for action, there must still be some basis.
The closest example is Mr. Trump. Why is he hated so much? He is a man with his own shortcomings and very serious ones. But he, as a businessman, is a man of reality. And not a fan of liberal “religion”. He is an unbeliever in this sense.
At the same time, he, like the majority of the American elite, is confident in the chosenness of the American people. But he, as a rational person, does not consider this a reason to do outright stupidity.
It is precisely people of rationality who are our greatest allies today, no matter how they treat us.
Brzezinski recently died. He was a consistent enemy of Russia. Always. He lived to crush Russia. This was his dream, his fix idea. But he was a rational man. Therefore, it was possible to negotiate with him.
- At the end of his life, it seems he changed his position regarding our country?
No. The dream remains the same. He just, as a rational person, realized that it was unattainable. And he had the character to say so.
Yes, he still dreamed that all Russians would fly to the moon. But, as a smart person, he did the math and realized: they won’t fly away. And he said this honestly: “A unipolar world is impossible.”
But he was a “knight of the unipolar world.” The destruction of the USSR and the absolute hegemony of the United States is what he dreamed of in the 70s. But even then it was possible to talk to him. And many Russian Soviet diplomats and politicians communicated with him. Despite the fact that he was a consistent anti-Soviet and Russophobe.
Brzezinski is just proof that the enemy, if he is sensible, in general, is much less harmful than these who are ready to jump out of the window.
Therefore, today the task for us is to find support in the West in the person of people, for example, Henry Kissinger, and to resist psychosis. You see, when you run a real business, you can't be mentally ill. Because you need to produce something, achieve some results... This will not work if you are sick.
And these “troubadours of Russophobia” like McCain, they are not engaged in any specific activities. That's why it's so easy for them to say what they say. Reality doesn't bother them.
But contact with those who rely on common sense is probably the only tactic we can afford today. Arguments are powerless against faith. We cannot convince these people that they are wrong. Because they do not rely on any arguments. They simply believe that “Russia is an evil empire”, that “all Russians are inferior, they must be destroyed and live happily.”
It is impossible to fight this logically. You just need to find those who don't believe in it. There are quite a lot of them, including high-ranking people. If there were no such people, Trump would not have become president. And Merkel would not have come to Moscow, but would have continued to talk about “how we can curb Russia.”
Classified secret
The scientific data below is a terrible secret. Formally, this data is not classified, since it was obtained by American scientists outside the field of defense research, and was even published in some places, but the conspiracy of silence organized around it is unprecedented.
What is this terrible secret, the mention of which is a worldwide taboo? This is the secret of the origin and historical path of the Russian people.
Agnation.
Why information is hidden - more on that later. First, briefly about the essence of the discovery of American geneticists.
There are 46 chromosomes in human DNA, half of which he inherits from his father, half from his mother. Of the 23 chromosomes received from the father, only one - the male Y chromosome - contains a set of nucleotides that is passed on from generation to generation without any changes for thousands of years. Geneticists call this set a haplogroup. Every man living now has in his DNA exactly the same haplogroup as his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, etc. for many generations.
Thus, American scientists found that one such mutation occurred 4,500 years ago on the Central Russian Plain. A boy was born with a slightly different haplogroup than his father, to which they assigned the genetic classification R1a1. The paternal R1a mutated and a new R1a1 emerged.
The mutation turned out to be very viable. The R1a1 genus, which was started by this same boy, survived, unlike millions of other genera that disappeared when their genealogical lines were cut off, and multiplied over a vast space. Currently, holders of haplogroup R1a1 make up 70% of the total male population of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and in ancient Russian cities and villages - up to 80%. R1a1 is a biological marker of the Russian ethnic group. This set of nucleotides is “Russianness” from a genetic point of view.
Thus, the Russian people in a genetically modern form were born in the European part of present-day Russia about 4,500 years ago. A boy with the R1a1 mutation became the direct ancestor of all men now living on earth whose DNA contains this haplogroup. All of them are his biological or, as they used to say, blood descendants and among themselves - blood relatives, together making up a single people - the Russians.
Realizing this, American geneticists, with the enthusiasm inherent in all emigrants in questions of origin, began to wander around the world, take tests from people and look for biological “roots”, their own and others. What they accomplished is of great interest to us, since it sheds true light on the historical paths of our Russian people and destroys many established myths.
Now men of the Russian genus R1a1 make up 16% of the total male population of India, and in the upper castes there are almost half of them - 47%
Our ancestors migrated from their ethnic home not only to the east (to the Urals) and south (to India and Iran), but also to the west - to where European countries are now located. In the western direction, geneticists have complete statistics: in Poland, holders of the Russian (Aryan) haplogroup R1a1 make up 57% of the male population, in Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - 40%, in Germany, Norway and Sweden - 18%, in Bulgaria - 12 %, and in England - the least (3%).
The settlement of Russian-Aryans to the east, south and west (there was simply nowhere to go further to the north; and so, according to the Indian Vedas, before coming to India they lived near the Arctic Circle) became a biological prerequisite for the formation of a special language group - Indo-European. These are almost all European languages, some languages of modern Iran and India and, of course, the Russian language and ancient Sanskrit, which are closest to each other for the obvious reason: in time (Sanskrit) and in space (Russian language) they stand next to the original source - Aryan the proto-language from which all other Indo-European languages grew.
“It’s impossible to dispute. You need to shut up"
The above are irrefutable natural scientific facts, moreover, obtained by independent American scientists. Disputing them is the same as disagreeing with the results of a blood test in a clinic. They are not disputed. They are simply kept silent. They are hushed up unanimously and stubbornly, they are hushed up, one might say, completely. And there are reasons for this.
For example, we will have to rethink everything that is known about the Tatar-Mongol invasion of Rus'. The armed conquest of peoples and lands was always and everywhere accompanied at that time by the mass rape of local women. Traces in the form of Mongolian and Turkic haplogroups should have remained in the blood of the male part of the Russian population. But they are not there! Solid R1a1 - and nothing more, the purity of the blood is amazing. This means that the Horde that came to Rus' was not at all what is commonly thought of it: if the Mongols were present there, then in statistically insignificant numbers, and it is generally unclear who was called “Tatars”. Well, which scientist will refute scientific foundations, supported by mountains of literature and great authorities?!
The second reason, incomparably more significant, relates to the sphere of geopolitics. The history of human civilization appears in a new and completely unexpected light, and this cannot but have serious political consequences.
Throughout modern history, the pillars of European scientific and political thought proceeded from the idea of Russians as barbarians who had recently climbed down from the trees, naturally backward and incapable of creative work. And suddenly it turns out that the Russians are the same Aryans who had a decisive influence on the formation of great civilizations in India, Iran and in Europe itself! That Europeans owe a lot to Russians for their prosperous lives, starting with the languages they speak. It is no coincidence that in recent history, a third of the most important discoveries and inventions belong to ethnic Russians in Russia itself and abroad. It is no coincidence that the Russian people were able to repel the invasions of the united forces of continental Europe led by Napoleon and then Hitler. Etc.
Great historical tradition.
It is no coincidence, because behind all this there is a great historical tradition, thoroughly forgotten over many centuries, but remaining in the collective subconscious of the Russian people and manifesting itself whenever the nation faces new challenges. Manifesting itself with iron inevitability due to the fact that it grew on a material, biological basis in the form of Russian blood, which remains unchanged for four and a half millennia.
Western politicians and ideologists have a lot to think about in order to make their policy towards Russia more adequate in the light of the historical circumstances discovered by geneticists. But they don’t want to think or change anything, hence the conspiracy of silence around the Russian-Aryan topic.
The collapse of the myth about the Russian people.
The collapse of the myth of the Russian people as an ethnic mixture automatically destroys another myth - the myth of the multinationality of Russia. Until now, they have tried to present the ethno-demographic structure of our country as a vinaigrette from the Russian “you won’t understand what the mixture is” and many indigenous peoples and newcomer diasporas. With such a structure, all its components are approximately equal in size, so Russia is supposedly “multinational.”
But genetic studies provide a completely different picture. If you believe the Americans (and there is no reason not to believe them: they are authoritative scientists, they value their reputation, and they have no reason to lie in such a pro-Russian way), then it turns out that 70% of the entire male population of Russia are purebred Russians. According to the data of the penultimate census (the results of the latter are still unknown), 80% of respondents consider themselves Russian, i.e. 10% more are Russified representatives of other nations (it is in these 10%, if you “scratch”, that you will find non-Russian roots). And 20% falls on the remaining 170-odd peoples, nationalities and tribes living on the territory of the Russian Federation. Total: Russia is a mono-ethnic country, albeit multi-ethnic, with an overwhelming demographic majority of natural Russians. This is where Jan Hus' logic comes into play.
About backwardness.
Next - about backwardness. The clergy thoroughly contributed to this myth: they say that before the baptism of Rus', people lived in complete savagery. Wow, “wildness”! They mastered half the world, built great civilizations, taught the aborigines their language, and all this long before the birth of Christ... Real history does not fit in, it does not fit in with its church version. There is something primordial, natural in the Russian people that cannot be reduced to religious life.
In the north-east of Europe, in addition to the Russians, many peoples lived and still live, but none of them created anything even remotely similar to the great Russian civilization. The same applies to other places of civilizational activity of the Russian-Aryans in ancient times. Natural conditions are different everywhere, and the ethnic environment is different, therefore the civilizations built by our ancestors are not the same, but there is something common to all of them: they are great on the historical scale of values and far surpass the achievements of their neighbors.
Scientists have recently come close to deciphering the human genetic code. This largely allowed us to take a fresh look at the history of the Russian ethnos, which turned out to be more ancient and not as homogeneous than previously thought.
In the depths of centuries
The human genome is a changeable thing. During the evolution of humanity, its haplogroups have undergone mutations more than once. Today, scientists have already learned to determine the approximate time when this or that mutation occurred. Thus, American geneticists found that one of these mutations occurred about 4,500 years ago on the Central Russian Plain. A boy was born with a different set of nucleotides from his father - he was assigned the genetic classification R1a1, which arose instead of his father's R1a.
This mutation, unlike many others, turned out to be viable. The R1a1 genus not only survived, but also spread over a large part of the Eurasian continent. Currently, approximately 70% of the male population of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are carriers of haplogroup R1a1, and in old Russian cities this number reaches 80%. Thus, R1a1 serves as a kind of marker of the Russian ethnic group. It turns out that in the veins of most men in modern Russia flows the blood of an ancient boy who lived in the late Neolithic era.
Approximately 500 years after the birth of haplogroup R1a1, migration flows of its representatives spread to the east – beyond the Urals, to the south – to Hindustan and to the west – to the territory of modern European countries. Archaeologists also confirm that the inhabitants of the Central Russian Plain went far beyond the boundaries of their ancestral range. Analysis of bone remains of burials in Altai of the 1st millennium BC. e. showed that in addition to the Mongoloids, pronounced Caucasians also lived there.
There is no Tatar
One of the issues of the popular science publication The American Journal of Human Genetics published an article about research by a Russian-Estonian team of scientists into the gene pool of the Russian people. The researchers' findings were quite unexpected. First: the Russian ethnic group is heterogeneous in its genetic nature. One part of the Russians, living in the central and southern regions of the country, is close to the neighboring Slavic peoples, the other part - in the north of Russia - is genetically closely related to the Finno-Ugric peoples.
The next conclusion is more interesting. Scientists have never been able to detect the notorious Asian element in the Russian genome. The Tatar-Mongol set of genes is not present in any noticeable quantity in any of the Russian populations. It turns out that the established expression “Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar” is wrong.
The head of the laboratory of genomic geography at the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Oleg Balanovsky, considers the Russian gene pool to be “almost entirely European,” and calls its differences from the Central Asian one “really great,” as if they were two different worlds.
Academician Konstantin Scriabin, head of the genomic direction at the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, agrees with Balanovsky. He says the following: “We did not find any noticeable Tatar additions in the Russian genome, which refutes theories about the destructive influence of the Mongol yoke.” In addition, Siberians, according to the scientist, are genetically identical to the Old Believers - they have the same “Russian genome.”
Researchers also pay attention to the slight difference in genotype between Russians on the one hand and neighboring Slavic peoples - Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles - on the other. The difference between the southern and western Slavs and the inhabitants of the Russian north is more pronounced.
Special markers
According to anthropologist Vasily Deryabin, the Russian genotype also has its own clear physiological markers. One of them is the predominance of light shades of eyes among Russians: gray, blue, gray-blue, blue. We have 45 percent of them, in Western Europe there are fewer – about 35 percent. There are many Russians and fair-haired people. According to anthropologists, there are no more than 5 percent of Russians with natural black hair. In Western Europe, the chance of meeting a black-haired person is 45%.
Contrary to popular belief, there are not many snub noses among Russians - about 7%, in about 75% of cases the nose is straight. Also, among Russians there is no epicanthus - a fold typical of representatives of Mongoloid peoples at the inner corner of the eye.
The Russian ethnic group is characterized by a predominance of blood groups I and II; among Jews, for example, group IV is more common. Biochemical studies have also shown that in the blood of Russians, as well as other European peoples, there is a special RN-c gene, but it is absent in the Mongoloids.
Northerners are closer
Research Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Anthropology named after. D.N. Anuchin of Moscow State University conducted an in-depth study of the gene pool of the Russian people, during which they established a difference in the genotype between the Russians and our northern neighbors the Finns - it amounted to thirty conventional units. But the genetic differences between the Russian ethnic group and the Finno-Ugric peoples (Mordovians, Mari, Vepsians, Karelians, Komi-Zyrians, Izhorians), who traditionally lived in the north of our country, correspond to only three units.
Scientists talk not just about the genetic unity of Russians with the Finno-Ugrians, but about their common origin. Moreover, the specific structure of the Y chromosomes of these ethnic groups is in many ways identical to the peoples of Hindustan. But this is not surprising, given the direction of settlement of the genetic ancestors of the Russian people.
American geneticists Harvard University For several decades, detailed studies have been carried out on the inhabitants of Europe, Asia, America, Oceania and Africa for differences in heredity among people of different races and nations that inhabit our planet.
Scientists were able to find out that all people on earth are divided into 22 clans, which trace their origins to a common ancestor at the base of the clan. Naturally, there were initially much more genera, but only these 22 genera survived in the process of evolution. This was done thanks to the analysis of the male Y chromosome and the mutations that have occurred in it over many millennia. Each person carries within himself a kind of “biological document” that cannot be lost - this is human DNA. DNA genealogy methods allow you to gain access to that part of DNA that is passed unchanged from father to son through the direct male line - the Y chromosome.
Lives in Europe 4 main genera, which are also called haplogroups:
1)R1b - Western European
2)R1a - Eastern European or Eurasian
3)I - Old European (divided into I1-Scandinavian and I2-Balkan)
4)N - Balto-Finnish or Finno-Ugric
Based on these studies, Ukrainians are predominantly characterized by the R1a genus, which is found in more than 55% of the population, and in some areas reaches 80% of the people living there. In the northern, originally Russian (Russian) regions (Novgorod, Pskov, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Murmansk, Kirov regions) the percentage of this genus does not exceed 30-35%. In these regions of Russia, two other genera are common - N (Balto-Finnish) and I1 (Scandinavian). Only in some southern Russian regions does the R1a genus occur with a frequency of 50-55%.
The R1a genus is predominantly characteristic of steppe peoples and their descendants (among Western Europeans it is extremely rare and does not exceed 3-8%). Among Europeans, in addition to Russians, this genus is widespread among Poles (about 57%), Ukrainians (more than 55%), Belarusians (about 50%), Czechs (more than 35%), and Hungarians (about 25%). Among some Asian peoples, the R1a genus is dominant - among the Pashtuns of Afghanistan (70%) and the Balochis of Pakistan (70%), the Punjabis of Pakistan and India (80%), the Tajiks and Kyrgyz (about 70%), the Nogais, Bashkirs and Kazan Tatars (from 40 to 50%), Altaians - 47%, Kazakhs and Uzbeks - approximately 30%, Crimean Tatars - 33%. Of the already non-existent peoples, haploggroup R1a was the main one among the Khazars, Scythians and Sarmatians. This was shown by genetic samples taken at their burial sites.
How are things going with the Slavs and Balts in general? From which genera do they predominantly come?
1. Poles - 57% R1A, 16% R1b (Western European), 7% I1 (Scandinavian), 10% I2, 5% N
2. Ukrainians - 55% R1a, 2% R1b, 15% I2, 4% I1, 5-10% N, 8% E (African), 7% J (Semitic)
3. Belarusians - 50% R1a, 10% R1b, 3% I1, 16% I2, 10% N (Finno-Ugric)
4. Russians (all) - 47% R1a, 8% R1b, 18% I1+I2, 20% N
5. Slovaks - 47% R1a, 17% R1b, 17% I1+I2 (in total), 10% E, 3-5% N
6. Czechs - 38% R1a, 19% R1b, 19% I2+I1, 8% E, 6% J
7. Slovenes - 37% R1a, 21% R1b, 12% I1, 20% I2, 7% E, 3% J
8. Croats - 37% R1a, 16% R1b, 32% I2, 6% I1, 6% E, 6% J
9. Serbs 20% R1a, 11% R1b, 30% I2 (Balkan), 20% E, 6% J
10.Bulgarians 20% R1a, 20% R1b, 20% I2, 20% E, 11% J
11.Bosnian Croats - about 75% I2 (Balkan)
12. Russians (north) - 35% R1a, 5% R1b, 35% N (Finno-Ugric), 15% I1 (Scandinavian)
13. Russians (center) - 45% R1a, 8% R1b, 5% I1, 10% I2, 15% N, 5% E
14. Russians (south) - 55% R1a, 5% R1b, 15% I2 (Balkan), 5% I1 (Scandinavian), 5-10% N
15. Latvians - 40% R1a, 40% N, 11% R1b, 7-8% I1+I2
16. Lithuanians -38% R1a, 45% N, 5% R1b, 10% I1+I2
17.Estonians -35% R1a, 9% R1b, 33% N, 18% I1
18. Norwegians - 28% R1a, 28% R1b, 34% I1, 5% N, 1% I2
19. Swedes - 20% R1a, 22% R1b, 35% I1, 11% N, 4% I2
20. Finns - 8% R1a, 4% R1b, 59% N, 28% I1, 1% I2
It is also interesting to note that the Rurik family, the founders of Ancient Rus', turned out to be Balto-Finnish or Finno-Ugric in origin (genus N). The American study was based on DNA analysis of several dozen descendants of this glorious princely family. 
