Russia (Euro/America-Russia War)

The Democratic Russian State (Russian: Демократическое Pоссийское государство, Demokraticheskoye rossiyskoye gosudarstvo) or just Russia is a country in Eastern Europe, and within the Greater European Reich. It borders Ukraine and the Caucasian Republic to the south, Ural Republic to the east, Finland to the north, Belarus to the west and the Baltics to the northwest. Its capital as well as its largest city is Moscow. Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city and cultural capital. 
The East Slavs emerged as a recognised group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. The first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus', arose in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire. Rus' ultimately disintegrated, with the Grand Duchy of Moscow growing to become the Tsardom of Russia. By the early 18th century, Russia had vastly expanded through conquest, annexation, and the efforts of Russian explorers, developing into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. However, with the Russian Revolution in 1917, Russia's monarchic rule was abolished and eventually replaced by the Russian SFSR—the world's first constitutionally socialist state. Following the Russian Civil War, the Russian SFSR established the Soviet Union with three other Soviet republics, within which it was the largest and principal constituent. At the expense of millions of lives, the Soviet Union underwent rapid industrialisation in the 1930s and later played a decisive role for the Allies in World War II by leading large-scale efforts on the Eastern Front. With the onset of the Cold War, it competed with the United States for global ideological influence. The Soviet era of the 20th century saw some of the most significant Russian technological achievements, including the first human-made satellite and the first human expedition into outer space.
In 1991, the Russian SFSR emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as the independent Russian Federation. A new constitution was adopted, which established a federal semi-presidential system. Since the turn of the century, Russia's political system has been dominated by Vladimir Putin, under whom the country has experienced democratic backsliding and a shift towards authoritarianism. Russia has been militarily involved in a number of conflicts in former Soviet states and other countries, including its war with Georgia in 2008 and annexation of Crimea in 2014 from neighbouring Ukraine, followed by the further annexation of four other regions in 2022. In 20?? after a begrudging cease-fire with Ukraine, Russia was embroiled in an 8-year war against the Greater European Reich and Greater American Union, a descendent of NATO and the EU, as well as Japan and Central Asia repeating the same mistakes of fighting a multi-front war of dictatorship states in the past, in which Russia was defeated, and its territory shrunk to 80% of pre-war European Russia's borders - truly ending Russia's status as a sovereign world power. Although existing a democratic republic under the tight watch of the Greater European High Command and Greater European High Council, Russia started to recover much of its independence over the years, including the crowning of George I Mikhialovich as the new Tsar of Russia. Russia also started to recover its military prowess, into becoming one Greater Europe's most powerful - however in order to prevent another tyrannical rise, it is still heavily audited and tightly-watched by the Greater European High Command, as Russia is still internationally forbidden from extending its borders beyond the confines of that decided in the Great European Treaty. Additionally, Russia's navy is nowhere near as large as its former self, or that of Ukraine's, which is now the second-largest navy in Greater Europe.
Within Greater Europe however, Russia is still one of its most prominent members, it is the largest state in the Eastern Region of Greater Europe, with Russian language and culture promoted as one of the "Great Cultures and Nations of Europe", Russian is also one of the official languages of the supranational union, along with Latin, German and English. Additionally, Russia has still remained one of the tech, science and cultural centers of Europe. Russia as a stand-alone nation also has the largest population in Greater Europe. Nearly a decade after the war, Russia experienced a Modern Reinassance, filled with renewed interest, and migration of Europeans into Russia, and adopting Russian culture. Between the years of ??? and ???, Russia was Greater Europe's most-visited region and the top place for migration.
== Economy ==
The Euro is the current currency of Russia, and it currently fields the third-largest economy of Greater Europe and also functions as one of the main economic powerhouses of Greater Europe. Almost every economic industry - ranging from agriculture, services, technology, tourism, and the petrol-industry gives life to the Russian economy.
It has a total nominal GDP of $7.3 trillion, behind the Latin Union's $8.4 trillion and Germany's $9.5 trillion. Contrary to what Russian ultranationalists of today think, a smaller Russia part of the European Union has actually made it more economically prosperable. In the immediete years following the post-war era, Russia had one of the lowest economies, however with renewed interest in Russia view tourism and migration from other areas of Greater Europe, its economy made a rapid comeback, overpower its former war foe, Ukraine.
== Military ==
Although still fielding a viable defense force, Russia is no longer the militarist state it once was and much like post-World War II Japan, the idea of building a militaristic empire is frowned up on Russia. In spite of Russia's size, it currently fields only the 4th most powerful military force of Greater Europe thanks to local distrust of a Russian military empire, and stands at 472,000 total personnel. Additionally, Russia is riddled with foreign bases from the other Greater European countries, as part of measures to make sure Russia doesn't rise again under a tyrannic dictator, although Ukraine is excluded from this. The current "armed forces" of Russia so-to-speak is the Royal Russian Defence Forces, and is divided into the Royal Ground Forces, Royal Air Force and Royal Maritime Force.
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