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Empires & Dynasties · Kievan Rus' Kievan or Kyivan Rus'? The Name, the Spelling and Who Owns the Past Was Kievan Rus' Ukraine or Russia? What the realm called itself, where "Kievan" and "Kyivan" come from, and why historians call Rus' a shared past. 7 October 2026 · 14 min read