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The East Slavs are Slavic peoples speaking East Slavic languages. Formerly the main population of the medieval state of Kievan Rus by the seventeenth century they evolved into the Russian Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples.

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language
East Slavic languages, Russian language, Belarusian language, Ukrainian language, Rusyn language
population place
Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia
related
Slavs
religion
Catholic Church, Orthodox Christianity
total population
200000000

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