Kievan was a loose federation of East Slavic and Finno-Ugric peoples in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century,under the reign of the Varangian Rurik dynasty The modern nations of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors with Belarus and Russia deriving their names from it. Russia was ruled by the Rurikid dynasty until the 16th century.
