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The East Slavs are a Slavic ethnic group, the speakers of 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 people. Modern East Slavic people and ethnic groups include: 1) RUSSIANS -Pomors -Lipovan Russians -Cossacks 2)UKRAINIANS -Bojko -Hutsuls -Lemkos -Poleszuks 3) BELARUSSIANS -Poleszuks 4)RUSYNS -Lemkos