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Official Name: The Russian Federation
First Appearance: StormWatch Vol 1 #2

 Population: 142, 008, 838
Captial City: Moscow
Government: Federal, semi-presidential republic
Major Languages: Russian
Monetary Unit:
Major Resources:


Places of Interest:
  • Krasny Medyved (StormWatch Vol 1 #11): This Former Soviet Army base in Siberia was seized by Communist rebels planning to overthrow the Russian government. Stormwatch was originally sent in to sweep the rebels out of the base but were called back before completing the mission. When the Russian troops sent in to finish the sweep disappeared, Stormwatch was sent back in. M.A.D.-1 showed up to fight them, but was defeated. Following M.A.D.-1's defeat, the base was presumably cleaned out, and the Russian troops fate was discovered.
  • Red Base (StormWatch Vol 1 #20):A secret Soviet facility in the Ural Mountains where Prometheus was continued. It was supposed to be a launching area for a planned Communist coup of the Russian government. The base contained dozens of yet-to-be-activated M.A.D. units. The base was destroyed by Winter, Cannon, and Henry Bendix.
  • Science City Gamma, USSR (Jenny Sparks #3): A secret facility run by Doctor Seigrid & Professor Schultzer.
  • Soviet Science City Wrangel Island (StormWatch PHD #15): The Soviet War Golem was created here.

National Defence:

 Nonhuman Population:

 Domestic Superhumans:
  • Cassandra Calder: A former member of International Operations's Psi-Ops division.

Prominent Citizens:
  • Shire (Svetlana Grozny) A member of Black Ops

Domestic Crime:
  • M.A.D.-1: A killer Soviet cyborg.

International Crime:
  • Yuri Kasakov: A member of the Secret Monarchy of Earth. His great-grandfather engineered the Russian Revolution. (Sleeper #4)

Overview:
Russia is a transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia. It is a semi-presidential republic comprising 83 federal subjects. Russia shares land borders with the following countries (counterclockwise from northwest to southeast): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (via Kaliningrad Oblast), Poland (via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and Democratic People's Republic of Korea. At 17,075,400square kilometres (6,592,800sqmi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than an eighth of the Earth’s land area; with 142 million people, it is the ninth largest by population. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 11 time zones and incorporating a great range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's greatest reserves of mineral and energy resources, and is considered an energy superpower. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's unfrozen fresh water.

 The nation's history began with that of the East Slavs. The Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a noble Viking warrior class and their descendants, the first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus', arose in the 9th century and adopted Christianity from the Byzantine Empire in 988,beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Kievan Rus' ultimately disintegrated and the lands were divided into many small feudal states. The most powerful successor state to Kievan Rus' was Moscow, which served as the main force in the Russian reunification process and independence struggle against the Golden Horde. Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities and came to dominate the cultural and political legacy of Kievan Rus'. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland eastward to the Pacific Ocean and Alaska.

Russia established worldwide power and influence from the times of the Russian Empire to being the largest and leading constituent of the Soviet Union, the world's first and largest constitutionally socialist state and a recognized superpower. The nation can boast a long tradition of excellence in every aspect of the arts and sciences. The Russian Federation was founded following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, but is recognized as the continuing legal personality of the Soviet Union. It has one of the world's fastest growing major economies and has the world's eighth largest GDP by nominal GDP or seventh largest by purchasing power parity with the fifth largest military budget. It is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the world's largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, a member of the G8, APEC and the SCO, and is a leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.


History:
  • 1955: The Soviet Union decommissions their flying battle barges as the United States decommissions the atomic superman Adam Bomb. Both would be revived by the demon Ghoulgotha in the year 2000. (The Authority Annual 2000)
  • 1963: November 22: The Russians send a rocket ship to the Moon, along the exact same trajectory of the Project Artemis rocket. The craft disappears. The Four go into hiding. (Planetary #6)

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