Russian Federation

The Russian Federation was a country from 1991 to 2029. It was the world's largest country from 1991 to it's demise, consisting of 11 time zones and bordering 14 countries.

The country's capital and largest city was Moscow. Saint Petersburg was it's second-largest city. Other major urban areas included Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan.

The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable 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 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 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.

Putin heavily influenced Russia from 2000 till he died of a stroke in 2029, as he caused Russia to shift towards authoritarianism. Russia had been involved militarily in a number of post-Soviet conflicts, which has included the internationally unrecognized annexations of Crimea in 2014 from neighboring Ukraine and four other regions in 2022, 2 years before World War 3.

## Before World War 3

### The fall of the USSR

In an effort to put an end to the period of economic stagnation and to democratize the government, Mikhail Gorbachev, the final Soviet leader, adopted the policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) starting in 1985. Yet as a result, there have been significant nationalist and separatist movements across the nation.  The Soviet economy was the second biggest in the world before 1991, but it experienced a crisis in its last years.

The economic and political collapse of the Soviet Union led Russia into a deep and prolonged depression.

The Soviet Union fell apart on December 26, 1991, and thus, Russia took over the place of the USSR in the United Nations (UN).

### The Yeltsin Era

Boris Yeltsin was made the President of Russia in June 1991, in the first direct presidential election in Russian history. Wide-ranging reforms took place, for example privatization and free trade laws. wide-ranging reforms including privatisation and market and trade liberalisation were undertaken, including radical changes along the lines of "shock therapy".

The 1990s had extreme corruption and lawlessness, and the rise of criminal gangs and violent crime, and it had many armed conflicts in the North Caucasus.

There were both local ethnic battles and separatist Islamist insurrections. Because the Chechen separatists declared independence in 1991, a Chechen War was fought between the rebel groups and the Russian military. Terrorist attacks against civilians caused hundreds of deaths. The most notable of these were the Moscow theater hostage crisis and Beslan school siege.

Russia took responsibility for settling the USSR's external debts, even though its population made up just half of the population of the USSR at the time of its dissolution.

### The First Putin Era

On 31 December 1999, President Yeltsin resigned. The Presidency was handed over to the then Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin. Putin then won the 2000 presidential election. Putin stopped the Chechen rebellion quickly, but violence still occurred there.

High oil prices and initially weak currency followed by increasing domestic demand, consumption and investments has helped the economy grow for nine straight years. This improved the standard of living and increased Russia's influence on the world stage. While many reforms made during the Putin presidency have been criticized by Western nations as un-democratic.

#### Medvedev Era

On 2 March 2008, Dmitry Medvedev was elected President of Russia, whilst Putin became Prime Minister. Putin went back to being the president after the 2012 presidential elections, and Medvedev was made the Prime Minister.

Following a diplomatic crisis with neighboring Georgia, the Russo-Georgian War took place during 1–12 August 2008, resulting in Russia recognizing two separatist states in the territories that it occupies in Georgia. It was the first European war of the 21st century.

### The Second Putin Era

In 2014, following a revolution in Ukraine, Russia invaded and annexed the neighboring country's Crimean peninsula,[196] and contributed to the outbreak of war in eastern Ukraine with direct intervention by Russian troops.

crackdown on protesters increased, and some freedom of speech laws were removed.

#### Russian Invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation attacked Ukraine, starting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The invasion marked the largest conventional war in Europe since World War II, and was met with widespread international condemnation, as well as expanded sanctions against Russia. As a result, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe in March, and was suspended from the United Nations Human Rights Council in April.

In September 2022, Putin proclaimed the annexation of 15% of Ukraine's landmass in its Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions, the largest seizure attempted in Europe since World War II. Putin and Russian-installed leaders signed treaties of accession, internationally unrecognized and widely denounced as illegal, despite the fact that Russian forces have been unable to fully occupy any of the four regions.

There was stalemate, and surprisingly, on February 24, 2024, a temporarily ceasefire was made, but If Russia was to dare invade, they could face retaliation.

## World War 3

***NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ISN'T MEANT TO BE 100% REALISTIC***

### 2024

On, November 12, 2024, China had sent an ultimatum to Taiwan to give over all it's islands ***but*** Taiwan Island, in order for China to recognize it and to allow it to the UN. Taiwan rejected this (obviously) which caused China to declare war on Taiwan on November 19, 2024. Japan and South Korea retaliated by declaring war on China 4 days later.

### 2025

Russia was neutral, but as USA declared war on China, Russia saw this as a chance to start the Ukraine war again on January 12, 2025, with Belarus helping on January 16. Russia decided to invade Lithuania on January 21, but it was in NATO. NATO told Russia to stop invading within 7 days, or NATO will go to war with Russia. Russia failed to do so, then NATO declared war on Russia.

Russia quickly stormed through Moldova via Transnistria, and the front was stuck in Eastern Ukraine and Poland. Russia also quickly invaded Georgia again.