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The challenge, with a POD after the Mongol conquest of Kievan Rus, have a state form that:

-calls itself "Russia" and sees itself as a successor to Kievan Rus

-has its capital in Kiev or another Ukrainian city

-has Ukrainian (or something recognizably close to Ukrainian) as its official, standard language

-eventually reaches a size and shape roughly comparable to the OTL Russian Empire

Go!
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