@thor weird, since that's pretty much what "Belarus" means. With one nuance, "rus" means the Rus, which were the people from who Russia started, who inhabited the regions of today's Ukraine, Belarus and East Russia and both of the former are more of Rus successors than Russia itself despite the name. (Russia got seriously and irreversibly fucked by the mongols in the meantime.) So it's more of white Rus-land than white Russia, in Belarusian (Беларусь), English, Polish (Białoruś) and it seems Norwegian too.