Russian Federation

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The **Russian Federation** was the post Soviet Russian State that existed from it's declaration of sovereignty from the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 until it's informal destruction at the end of World War III in 2062. It was transcontinental country that spanned Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It was the largest country in the world, encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extended across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries. It was the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. The country's capital and largest city was Moscow. Saint Petersburg was Russia's cultural center and second-largest city. Other major urban areas included Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan.

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 industrialization in the 1930s, and later played a decisive role for the Allies of 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 had been dominated by Vladimir Putin, under whom the country has experienced democratic backsliding and a shift towards authoritarianism. Russia was involved militarily in a number of post-Soviet conflicts, which included the internationally unrecognized annexations of Crimea in 2014 from neighboring Ukraine, followed by the further annexation of four other regions in 2022 during its invasion. International rankings of Russia placed it low in measurements of human rights and freedom of the press; the country also had high levels of perceived corruption.

In 2023 the Putin-Era of Russia came to an end with his assassination as revenge for his invasion of Ukraine. He was followed by puppet leadership who further lead Russia into economic and military catastrophe, ending in the withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine in 2025. Communist leadership was briefly elected to national leadership with the brief Presidency of Pavel Grundinin who was killed five minuets after being sworn in as President. Natalia Poklonskaya became the first female President of Russia, elected in 2036. Oleg Koaslav, who would go on to become the first and only President of the Russian State would be elected President of the Federation in 2042 and would serve until 2054 becoming the longest serving President of Russia.

Flaring world tensions would drag Russia into World War Three as the Administration of Alexander Korben would be left almost powerless as it was unable to stop rough and ultranationalist factions of the Russian Military from launching an invasion of Ukraine and Georgia. This lead to Korben's resignation and allowed for the rise of Soymon Zotova, who was an ultranationalist who lead Russia to defeat in World War Three. Russia would be invaded and partitioned at the end of the war following the death of Valerian Polo during the 2062 Russian Government Massacre. Polo's murder at the hands of Makar Pavlov would effectively end the Russian Federation as a political and governmental entity as the vast majority of the nation was under allied occupation, the military had disintegrated and the Federal government had been wiped out after months of near endless bombardment.