Former Soviet Union (Post-Nuclear War Timeline)

The Ubezhishche Confederation (Russian: Убежище Конфедерация, Ubezhishche Konfederatsiya) is a loose confederation of city-state safe havens located across the former Russian Federation and former Soviet Union. They are very similar to "Safe Zone Districts" located in the former United States.
The world ubezhishche (Убежище) is Russian meaning "haven", the majority of the ones resembling cities and settlements of the pre-war life being under the influence of Initvos 44, an underground scientific movement meant at attempting to return earthly life to pre-war conditions, resembling a government. Like a government, Initvos 44 ordered rules and laws towards the ubezhishches that it had influence over, utilized paramilitary forces resembling soldiers and police and etc.
The ubezhische of Kazan, which had been declared the new capital city of Russia follow Moscow's destruction, functioned is the "capital" of the Confederation, where the leaders of the other ubezhisches of Eastern Europe and Central Asia convened. 
There were two types of ubezhisches, as labeled by Initvos 44, there were the ubezhische kul'turnyy (убежище культурный) - or "civilized havens", those that were under the influence of Initvos 44, and the dikiye trushchoby (дикие трущобы) - or "savage slums", rural havens often-not, despite the derogatory term, self-sufficient communities populated by hostile and armed resistors, many being Russian military veterans, who fiercely resisted Initvos 44, and even had many armed conflicts with Initvos 44.