The Russian Federation

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==History==
===Human-Vannai War===
Unique among the world powers, the Russian Federation is the only large national government that survived the chaos of the Human-Vannai War, though war-weary and battle-scarred for it, in part due to the expected difficulties of grappling with a technologically superior alien foe, and in large part due to the beginning of the Two-Week War coinciding with a nuclear exchange between Moscow and Washington that saw both cities be almost completely destroyed. Bereft of its seat of government and all vital figureheads, the Russian Federation teetered on the brink of collapse like so many other governments around the world. Some constituent republics sought to separate themselves from the greater whole, either out of necessity or opportunity, while areas that had been left completely lawless quickly descended into anarchy. Through a combination of Cold War contingencies and tenacity, the Federation was somehow able to claw itself back together and resume government functions nonetheless, enduring at great cost where many other nations failed.
This changed with the intervention of the Green Initiative in 2014 during what is known as the Kursk Incident. GIs under the command of a Pilot under the callsign ‘Bunyip’ had arrived in the region under the pretext of helping the federal government reestablish control over an area experiencing a communist uprising aided by what were at the time believed to be rogue power armor elements. The Russian military laid siege to the city with a large force of tanks and mechanized infantry, intending to stamp the revolutionaries out. Unfortunately, the ‘rogue power armor elements’ supporting the revolutionaries would turn out to be the very same Green Initiative Pilots that agreed to aid them. As it would happen, Bunyip and his men had stumbled into the area at some point prior and decided to throw their allegiance in with the communists, going as far as to then lure ACC forces into the fight with a false distress signal and then using the subsequent confusion of the arriving Coalition Pilots to trick them into attacking the federal military forces.
The result was a relations disaster for all parties involved. The Russian Federation was completely blindsided by the attack and believed itself betrayed by ACC. Within the Coalition, relations between Hanse Behörde and the Green Initiative soured considerably. GI ‘leadership’, completely oblivious to any operations even going on in Russia at the time, attempted to compartmentalize the fallout by pointing out that GI’s decentralized structure meant there was intentionally no internal oversight regarding the actions of any GI clan, and that the rest of the Green Initiative could not be held responsible for the actions of Bunyip or his men. For the Federation, the apparently unofficial declaration that ACC did not favor the federal government was interpreted as an attack of the government’s legitimacy and served to bolster seditious movements. Russia subsequently broke off relations with ACC completely, finding itself suddenly fraught with internal instability. The country would become mired in various internal conflicts that would become referred to by external observers as the Second Russian Civil War, and its participation in the wider war effort against the Vannai was subsequently minimal.
===The Second Russian Civil War===
Russian response to the incursion of Green Initiative-led rebels into its southern and western regions were hampered by the wide-scale nuclear destruction particularly concentrated over Moscow. Months after the Two-Week War, ACC Pilots searching for technology to loot discovered two hundred thousand survivors living in the underground metro system, starving and fearful that they might be the last surviving members of the human species left on the planet. Germany, largely unperturbed by the invasion, took it upon itself to send a task force of soldiers under the command of General Alexander Van Der Meyde to provide security for a 60km exclusion zone around Moscow under Hanse sponsorship. The original proposal was terribly received by the Russian federal government and initially refused, but eventually accepted for the sake of the otherwise completely displaced Moscow survivors despite many Russians considering it an incredible insult to have their capital city hosting a foreign army (and a German one no less) in the name of international aid. Having broken off relations with ACC after the Kursk Incident, both the Pilots and the Germans were considered an actual army of occupation in very short order, leading to the perception within Russia that ACC and Germany were using the Moscovich as hostages to prevent immediate military retaliation.
Whether or not this was true, the existence of the exclusion zone made maneuvering forces throughout western Russia very difficult for the federation as long as these borders were enforced. This directly factored into the successful breakaway of most of the Northwestern Federal District and the creation of the Romanov Empire. On several occasions, army groups sent to secure regions around the Black Sea and the Caucasus declared their independence and instead settled across the fringes of the Federation, confident they were far enough out of reach of retribution from an increasingly weakening government.
The outbreak of the Intervention War in June 2016 proved more than enough reason for Russia to force the Germans out of Moscow and finally dismantle the exclusion zone put in place by ACC. With Moscow still mostly uninhabitable, as much infrastructure as could be salvaged was relocated to Yekaterinburg, which had already been serving as the Russian Federation’s de facto capital in lieu of the zoned-off Moscow. Aware of the deteriorating state of the Federation, President Maksimilian Zakharov made the controversial decision to cut the state’s losses with the Northwestern Federal District and focus on the insurrection backed by the “Green Initiative” in the south. The Federation thus avoided committing itself to warring against the breakaway “empire” and instead doubled up on ensuring further secession on such a scale would become impossible.
===Post-War===
By 2017, conditions in Russia had, at least according to the federal government, largely stabilized. In truth, just how much control Russia has over its claimed territory is uncertain. Large secessionist states such as Don and Kuban still exist, and smaller forces still roam the countryside where federal presence is limited or nonexistent. It is similarly uncertain how strong Russia’s control over eastern Siberia is, though even by 2020 the Japanese Empire has avoided testing trespass into these regions.
The American Coalition, widely regarded as the successor state of the United States, has had surprisingly good relations with the Russian Federation despite the famous decades of bitter rivalry in the past as the two premier global powers of the age, and trade between these two nations through the increasingly accessible North Polar Region has steadily increased, implying further strengthening of a Russo-American partnership.
Following the 2022 Kaliningrad Anomaly Incident, the Russian Federation (somewhat correctly) suspected the European Federation to have been involved and demanded reparations, which the EuF ignored.
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