WI: Finnish Russia and Russian Ukraine?

Is it possible, with any POD from the 10th C. on, to get something like:

1. What's now northern and central European Russia - the regions of Muskovy, etc. - speaking a Finnic-Ugric language and being part of a large Finnic polity?

2. Ukraine, perhaps including some of the Don River basin, to be "Russia," aka the slavic cultural successor to Rus'?

3. Perhaps Siberia the Western caucuses part of a large Tatar empire?
 
A lot of the northern Russians, especially in the forested areas, were essentially assimilated Finnic and Baltic peoples. The assimilation continued well into the Middle Ages, so if you can somehow slow down the Slavs...

And no, that information isn't biased. I'm not a Finnish nationalist, I don't really care about that part of the world all that much.

Ukraine is indeed the heartland of the Kievan Rus, though after the Dark Ages and before the Early Modern Era it was actually full of Altaic steppe tribes.
 
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