The Death of Russia

The Death of Russia, where the 1993 parliamentary crisis erupts into a full blown civil war. Contains earlier PODs.
* 1945: The Little Boy atomic bomb against Hiroshima used a different casing. Point of divergence.
* 1958: Pioneer 1 became the first manmade object to escape Earth-Moon system.
* 1961: Alan Shepard became the first man to venture into space on March, however Yuri Gagarin beat him to orbit a month later.
* 1968: Yuri Gagarin did not die of plane crash.
* 1969: Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon.
* 1980: Reagan won the presidential election.
* 1986: No Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
* 1991: End of USSR.
* 1993: Russian parliamentary crisis. The army sides against Yeltsin causing them to flee to Kaliningrad as a rump state. After success the National Salvation Front began plotting war against Chechnya and Ukraine. Yeltsin is killed leaving Gaidar as president. Yuri Gagarin and his family leaves for America as refugees.
* 1994: Invasion of Chechnya and Ukraine. War crimes in both regions and ethnic strifes in Russia caused it to be isolated internationally. The final disintegration began when Dagestan seceded. Mir space station transferred to a private company MirCorp while China begin to gain from brain drain from Russian space industry.
* 1995: Various states of differing ideologies and ethnicity appeared in Russia. Mir space station sold to private company while the rump Gaidar government owns the launch facilities in Baikonur which now come under increased European Space Agency (ESA) influence. A theocratic state is proclaimed in the Far East, however it was then invaded by communist factions backed by North Korea. The Miracle of Vladivostok happens when suddenly international support arrived to defeat North Korea in time. Afterwards China invaded and toppled Kim regime.
* 1996: Taliban took over most of Afghanistan. Nukes fly in Russia causing widespread anarchy after Osama exploded one at Staliningrad.
* 1997: China began test firing some heavy life rocket designs.
* 1998: Iran diplomats are killed in Taliban controlled areas, resulting in a war.
* 2001: 9/11 attacks against America and Russia, the latter with nukes. Hiroshima agreement where nuke stockpiles are drastically reduced. China acquires majority stakes in MirCorp.
* 2003: Invasion of Iraq. Yang Liwei became the first Chinese in space. No Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
* 2015: Mir space station launched into deep space through a space tug.
* 2019: Start of COVID 19 pandemic.
* 2021: Summer Olympics is held in Tokyo, Japan.
* 2022: Death of Queen Elizabeth II.