Russia

“”We Russians remember every victory. And every humiliation. … Because we never hide what we took. And never think it was wrong.

— Vladimir Putin

Russia, officially the Russian Federation, is a Slavic transcontinental dictatorship in Europe and Asia. He is the largest country in the world, having 11 timezones without the help of oversees territories. Most of his land is a cold and vast place called Siberia, which is very rich in resources like oil, gas and minerals. He is usually seen riding/befriending a bear or with a bottle of vodka.

Russia has a harsh and strong personality, which is one of the reasons why he likes to bully his neighbors. Because of that, a lot of other countries dislike him. Russia also drinks way too much vodka, so he is usually drunk (especially gets drunk on his truck and unintentionally injured a lot of his neighbors). Russia is also known for his authoritarian personally. He does have elections, but all the opponents who even have a tiny chance against Putin are arrested, making sure Putin stays in power until the end of time.

The most popular hobby for Russians is chess, and Russia has produced many chess champions. Russia is also known for his excellence in wrestling, gymnastics, and ice hockey.

Russia often accuses NATO of stealing his friends, while in reality it was pretty much the opposite: Russia's "friends" wanted to get away from him and offered to join NATO themselves.

История (History)

Ранняя Российская Федерация (Early Russian Federation)

Main article: Russian Federation (1991-1993)

In 1991, the Soviet Union officially dissolves and the RSFSR declares himself as the Russian Federation. Boris Yeltsin becomes president, and embarks radical economic reforms, attempting a swift transition to a market economy. But this fails and caused hyperinflation and widespread poverty.

Since abandoning communism, Russia carried out both economic and political reforms at the same time. After experiencing a short period of agony in the 1990s, he entered a period of rapid development. From 1999 to 2003, Russia's GDP increased by a total of 29.9 percent. The living standard of his citizens improved significantly.

Western business circles began not only to discuss the "Russian economic phenomenon", but also started investing in Russia, the new hotspot, on a large scale. Russia's ranking among the most attractive nations for investment jumped from seventeenth in 2002 to eighth in 2003, becoming one of the world's top ten most popular nations for investment.

Войны, Войны и ещё раз Войны (Wars, Wars and more Wars)

Chechnya, a region within Russia, wanted independence and proclaimed himself as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in 1991. Soon afterwards Russian tanks started to roll in and massacre the civilians by the thousands, kicking off the First Chechen War in 1994. This ignited a protracted conflict that spanned several years and resulted in a staggering number of casualties. After a brief and uneasy peace in 1996, the conflict reignited in 1999 under the pretext of "anti-terrorism". This Second Chechen War was even more brutal.

In 1999, amidst ongoing challenges and controversies, Yeltsin resigned from the presidency, paving the way for Vladimir Putin to assume the leadership of Russia. Putin then won the 2000 presidential election, and defeated the Chechen insurgency in the Second Chechen War, concluding the conflict in victory for Russia.

Putin won a second presidential term in 2004. High oil prices and a rise in foreign investment saw the Russian economy and living standards improve significantly. Putin's rule increased stability, while transforming Russia into an authoritarian state. In 2008, Putin took the post of prime minister while Dmitry Medvedev was elected President for one term. Putin did this in order to hold onto power despite legal term limits, and this period has been described as a " tandemocracy".

In 2008, Russia levied false accusations of genocide against Georgia, leading to a military incursion. The ensuing conflict concluded with a victory for Russia, which subsequently recognized the independence of two breakaway territories within Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Russian economy, however, was one of the hardest hit by the 2008-2009 global economic crisis as oil prices plummeted and the foreign credits that Russian banks and firms relied on dried up.

Putin then went on to win the 2012 presidential election, which fuelled the Snow Revolution protests of 2012-2013, calling for free elections and release of political prisoners. The protests were suppressed, with many opposition leaders repressed, and election results were not revised, Putin staying in power.

As the United Nations declared that all waters 200 nautical miles away from a country's shore belongs to the country, Russia had a peninsula where there was a "hole" inside Russian waters because of the 200 miles rule, known as the "peanut hole". Many Panamanian, Japanese, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian fishers rushed to fish and almost drove Russia's fishing industry to extinction. The peanut hole was closed when countries agreed to stop fishers from going there and in 2014 the hole was declared as Russian waters.

In 2014, following a pro-Western revolution in Ukraine, Russia controversially annexed Crimea from him, defying international condemnation from the vast majority of countries worldwide. This action sparked significant geopolitical tensions and repercussions. Russia also attempted to make various puppet states in occupied Ukrainian clay.

The frozen conflict that is the Russo-Ukrainian front escalated into the full-on Russian invasion of the remainder of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, initiating the largest conventional war in Europe since World War II. Since then, Russia started using ℤ as a pro-war military symbol and really likes the ℤ. Russia also accused Ukraine of being infected by Nazis, and claims that he is just "cleansing" Ukraine, but his real goal was regime change in Ukraine to stop his westward drift and make him more like Belarus. On 14 September 2024, Russia and Ukraine exchanged 103 prisoners each.

In October 2024, Russia banned Discord, also suing Google for 2.5 decillion dollars ($2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) because they took down several Russian media accounts and bot farms due to sanctions. The same year Russia's coal economy and industry took a pretty big hit, and Russian coal exports decreased. The Russian bases in Syria are in high alert and ready to evacuate in December 2024, since the rebels have taken control of the country. On 23 February 2025, Russian forces launched a significant drone assault, deploying 267 drones in a single attack—the largest of the war to date. Ukrainian defenses managed to intercept 138 of them.

In August 2025, peace talks with Amerima between Russia and Ukraine aren't looking good for Putin. Putin says that his minimum requirement for peace is for Russia to keep the Donbas and Crimea, but the thing is, the cost estimated to rebuild Donbas is 10% of the Russian GDP. Ukraine was agreed to buy $100B worth of weapons from the US, so regime change is out of the question. Finland and Sweden joined NATO as a direct result of the war, and even if Russia takes everything he had invaded up to this point, nothing would change much because Ukraine would become a fortress armed to the teeth by the West. All in all, the Russo-Ukraine War has been a disaster for Russia. Putin wanted to keep Ukraine out of the Western sphere, but all he got was a chunk of land decimated by war, a wrecked economy, and a mountain of corpses.

Экономика (Economy)

Russia has a mixed market economy, which emerged after a challenging transition from the Soviet planned system in the 1990s. A significant portion of Russia's economic activity revolves around his rich and diverse natural resources, especially oil and natural gas.

Подразделения (Subdivisions)

Russian Federation has 83 federal subjects (first-level subdivisions). These are listed below (WIP).

• Altai
• Bashkortostan
• Buryatia
• Chechnya
• Chuvashia
• Crimea
• Dagestan
• Kaliningrad
• Karelia
• Omsk
• Sakha
• Sakhalin
• Tatarstan

Пустяки (Trivia)

• Russia is bigger than Pluto.
• Russia has land borders with 14 countries (not including Abkhazia and South Ossetia).
• In the Russian Language, the native name of the country (Rossiya) is a feminine noun. This explain why Mother Russia, the national personification of Russia, is a woman.
• In Russia beer has only been classified as an alcoholic beverage in 2011, when a bill for reclassification was passed by parliament and actually entered into force in 2013. Before, it was a "food item", treated like a soft drink.
• Historically, Russia has the one of the highest abortion rate in Europe. While abortion rates have declined by almost 90% in recent decades, Russia still reports rates higher than the European average. Between 2016 and 2021, Russia reduced the number of abortions by 39%, and strives to reduce it by 50% by 2025. Russia is recovering from Soviet-era peaks of abortion.
• Russia's national anthem has the same instrumental to that of the Soviet Union, with the difference being the lyrics.
• Unlike the cities of the Middle East and Asia, Russian cities did not have walls around the whole city, instead only the inner part, protecting strategic points or holy places. These small fortresses are called "kremlins". However, when Western media talks about a kremlin, they're usually referring to the Moscow Kremlin.
• On YouTube, Russian supporters and bots will call anything that criticizes Russia " Western propaganda" or " American propaganda", despite sometimes not being associated with the West at all. But this can be gone vise versa too, as a bunch of terminally online Ukrainian supporters started harassing an actor that lived in Germany since she was thirteen, only because she was from Russia.

Цитаты (Quotes)

“”For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“”So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that's wrong, and it goes against everything that we stand for.

— Kamala Harris

Список президентов (List of Presidents)

Dictators Presidents of the Russian Federation

Name	Number	In Office	Party
Boris Yeltsin	1	1991-1999	Independent
Vladimir Putin	2	2000-2008	Independent
Dmitry Medvedev	3	2008-2012	Independent
Vladimir Putin	4	2012-	Independent

Отношения (Relationships)

Друзья (Friends)

• Беларусь - My sister and best frieиd! Most supportings! Useful puppet too
• Китай - Best trading partиer! Stronk frieиd! We both hate westerи pigs! And thank yuo for buyings my oil to keep my economy going in time of war! You keep my war machine going. But we aren't as close as most people think. We are only united by common enemy. But hey, our alliance is based of mutual respect and understanding of interests, involves no third party. I want your money, not your battles, so I won't be joining your anti-US tariff crusade.
• Иран - Your drones are especially useful for fighting Ukraine. But, I don't want you to have nuclear weapons and I don't want to alienate my other allies UAE and Saudi, so I'm not helping you for now.
• Алжир - Best North Africaи friend! But be иicer to your mother please.
• Афганистан - Thanks for defeating that evil westerner!!!! XAXAXAXAXAXA! Meet me in Moscow, we'll talk there to be sure about that! Also thanks for recognizing CRIMEA as mine.
• Баасистская Сирия - I gave yuo decades of continuous support… And yuo fall apart in two weeks. Unbelievable, but I should have cared more about yuo, I got distracted by this Nazi.
• Абхазия - Is of indepeиdent! I recogиized him and protect him against Georgia.
• Южная Осетия - I will protect you from Georgia. You caи get indepeиdeиce!
• Казахстан - Step-brother! Uraиium trader!
• Науру - Here, recogиize these breakaway states . I got the money!

Нейтральный (Neutral)

• Сибирь - Hohoho, your natural resources are all mine. Don't think of rebelling, you know what happened to him…
• Турция - THE BLACK SEA IS MINE! STOP TRYING TO SPREAD INFLUENCE! STOP FUNDING THE REBELS! Been enemies since imperial times. But other than that we have good relationships nowadays. Delivering him anti-air missile systems and will probably sell him aircraft as well.

Враги (Enemies)

• США - GET YOUR IMPERIALIST INFLUENCE OUT OF EUROPE!!!
• Украина - Crimea and Donbas are MINE! YUO ARE GENOCIDER, WESTERN PUPPET AND NEO-NAZI!!!
• Грузия - 'YUO ARE GENOCIDER!!! South Ossetia AND Abkhazia DESERVE TO GAIN INDEPENDENT! And they're totally not Russian-infiltrated! ♫ We shall reclaim the Georgian soil, we shall obtain the Arctic oil… ♫
• НАТО - YOU OH YOU WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN… YOU STEAL MY FRIENDS AND TURN THEM AGAINST ME, YOU SANCTION ME FOR DE-NAZIFIYING UKRAINE, YOU TRY EVERYTHING TO GET RID OF ME! YOUR WHOLE EXISTENCE IS TO HATE ON ME! OH HOW MUCH I WANT TO DESTROY YOU…
• Евросоюз - Why won’t you let me in? European Union? More like… uh… NAZI UNION! STOP GIVING HIM AID!
• Германия - Oh, stop telling me to not invade this little guy. Not want to repeat old days, da?
• Нидерланды - I used to like you, but then you expelled my embassy for UK. I hate dirty homosex supporters like you. Get off, devil!
• Джибути - Looks like stupid American pressured you to block me from making a base in your clay. Guess I'll have to turn to Sudan now for hopes of Red Sea base.
• Аляска - Should have never sold you to American, now he can see my house from here.

Как нарисовать (How to draw)

Flag of Russia

Russia has a drawing rating of easy.

1. Draw a ball.
2. Fill it with three horizontal stripes of these three colours in order from top to bottom: white, blue, red.
3. Draw the eyes and yuo aer finish!
4. Add an Ushanka and/or a bottle of vodka (optional)
5. Add a “Z” somewhere on the ball/accessories (optional)

Color Name		HEX
	White	#FFFFFF
	Blue	#0036A7
	Red	#D62718

Галерея (Gallery)

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См. также (See Also)

• Post-Soviet Russian Federation