> There's no continuous history per se, but east slavic peoples (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian) have always been essentially the same people. They appear to

> There's no continuous history per se, but east slavic peoples (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian) have always been essentially the same people. They appear to you the same due to few centuries of cultural subjugation by one dominant power. Otherwise they are as diverse as anywhere else in Europe. > No one has ever disputed that the modern Russian empire represented the same people as the (Kyivan) Rus empire until very recently. Outside of Russia, few cared for particular details of the founding lore of a backwater empire. Inside the empire, see above.