List of Leaders of Russia

Russia is a very sinister nation in this universe. The Soviet Union has a large number of spy plots designed to destroy the West during the Cold War and, unlike in real life, glasnost and perestroika is ended by a hardliner coup against the government. The Soviets even invade Europe and North America under the hardline General Vladimir Soshkin, though they are beaten. The 1990's see corruption and capitalism take root in Russia and relations with the US become positive for the first and only time in the country's modern history-the US even lets Russia into NATO as a result of the partnership they formed to beat the alien invasions, Bortherhood of Nod and Augments.

However, that doesn't last. The 21st century dawns with multiple Putin analogues arising and attempting to reassert their influence abroad against the US. However, these individuals are still not radical enough for the ultranationalist Ushi Party, who launch a terrorist campaign and insurgency to overthrow the government from 2011 to 2016 and then win the 2016 Russian election. The Ushi Party launches a war with the US, but loses their president's loyalty when the fact they started the war via a false flag is revealed. And then that president is ousted by right-wingers who embark on a campaign to destabilize the US culminating in supporting a nuclear terrorist plot.

However, this angers Greater Hun Chiu, who has dreams of being a superpower. They nuke Moscow, wiping out most of the government except for the reinstated Tsar Nikolai Platonovich who presides over a Tsarist restoration. He gets removed in an election by Dominika Egorova, who promises democratic reforms. However, her presidency is undone by revelations she was a US spy before Gilead came to power and the Red Line emerges from underneath Moscow to take over the country. The revived Soviet state falls to another Tsarist claimant, who in turn is ousted by a member of the Optimum Movement who leads Russia into the Great War.

The war absolutely devastates Russia, with no really organized successor state emerging for a decade. Russia thus joins the Terran Federation early on.

## **1910's**

### **Vladimir Lenin(Communist Party of the Soviet Union) 1917-1924(Real)**

In the last years of World War I, Germany orchestrated a plan to return Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin to Russia following his exile. The intent of this was to hope he would spark a revolution. This plan was a success. The Russian Revolution was sparked by the actions of the sorcerer Peter Rastov Rasputin, sometimes known as ‘the Mad Monk.’ Rasputin used his powers to sway the masses of the people in Russia to rise up against the Romanovs. This began a war between the Lenin led Bolsheviks and the Imperialist army. Among Lenin's ranks was Pasha Antipov, who was reported missing in action. The Bolsheviks also falsely reported the death of Tsarist Sergius Alexander in a train crash that they had taken over. The aid of Rasputin allowed for Lenin’s forces to seize control of the country and massacre the Romanov family, though Rasputin himself would die pursuing the family, becoming an undead Lich. Only Princess Anastasia and Prince Alexei (who had been turned into a vampire by Rasputin) were able to escape the bloodshed that marked the formation of the USSR during what was dubbed ‘Red October.’ Lenin quickly signed a peace agreement with Germany, focusing on dealing with the anticommunist forces in Russia. With the aid of the infamous Bolshevik commander named Strelnikov, who was, in fact the believed dead Pasha Antipov. Lenin was able to crush uppity warlords such as Ataman Burnash, Grigori Melekhov and Sidor Lyuty. Lenin thus gained control over Russia, promising the people ‘peace, land and bread’ as part of his Bolshevik revolution. As the last anti-Soviet holdouts in Central Asia fell thanks to the efforts of Fyodor Sukhov, Lenin was able to get to work building his socialist dream in Russia. The ideals Lenin espoused even took root in neighboring Mongolia thanks to the effort of Bair Khan. His regime also thwarted the efforts of the engineer Garin to take over the world with his hyperboloid death ray. However, he would face some distractions thanks to a warning from the semi-clairvoyant political officer Klavdia Vavilova, who warned of an emerging supernatural threat to the Soviet Union. While initially dismissive, Lenin and Rasputin would soon be approached by the German dark wizard Heinrich Kemmler on behalf of Gellert Grindelwald, leader of the Storm Wizards. Grindelwald had ambitions of taking over the world for the good of the masses and offered Rasputin and the USSR the chance to assist in achieving this mission. The proud Lenin refused and was punished with a curse being placed upon him by the vengeful Kemmler and Rasputin, which led to his mind deteriorating and ultimately his death. His mummified corpse would be placed on display in Moscow as a symbol of the Revolution until the 1970’s, when the KGB swapped it for a double. The Lenin doppleganger’s corpse would reanimate during the brief ‘Soviet resurrection’ of the late 1990’s and the initial body would be resurrected by a mad scientist, but the resurrected Lenin would simply become a talk show host rather than repeat being a revolutionary. He was also secretly a member of the Blisk Race, as was every one of his successors until Kamenev.

## **1920's-1940's**

### **Josef Besstrashny (CPSU) 1927-1953(Rocky and Bullwinkle)**

As Antipov laid dying, a power struggle behind the scenes occurred between his two closest acolytes Omar Bender and Josef Besstrashny. Bender, a former outlaw, had become a socialist committed to internationalist principles and wanted to export the Soviet revolution abroad. Besstrashny, in contrast, wanted to consolidate socialism in Russia before seeking to spread it. After Antipov’s death, Besstrashny succeeded in taking power. Bender was forced to flee to Mexico where he would ultimately be murdered by KGB agents. Besstrashny began a purge of the government to root out allies of Bender and many high-ranking Soviet officials such as Nikolai Rubashov were targeted due to Benderist sympathies. A number of individuals who had no such sympathies fell victim to Besstrashny’s paranoia, such as Pavel Korchagin, Filipp Preobrazhensky and Timur Gaydar. Besstrashny sought to build a cult of personality around himself as the country’s ‘fearless leader’ and achieve greater prestige. He implemented several Five Year Plans to further industrialization of the USSR and manage the large number of blocks falling from the sky. His government thwarted the efforts of the capitalist William Bayley to seize control of the world’s oxygen supply and profit off selling it back to the masses. Additionally, he made major forays in the areas of space early on in his regime, using what little Cavorite was left in Russia to land cosmonauts on the Moon in 1938 and won a war against Green Martians attempting to invade the Soviet Union. The rise of Adenoid Hynkel in Germany initially proved favorable to Besstrashny, as he signed an agreement with Nazi Germany to split Arztotska between them and to mutual nonaggression. However, Hynkel would renege on this deal by invading the Soviet Union in 1941, forcing Besstrashny to join the Allies. Initially, German forces were able to gain quite a bit of ground, bolstered by their metahuman Albrecht Krieger. Besstrashny’s USSR had its own superhero in the form of Starfire who fought back against the Nazi invaders. Besstrashny also heeded the advice of the enigmatic Professor Woland to create the Scientific Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry in Kitezhgrad to counter the occult efforts of Germany’s Thule Society. The numerical advantage possessed by the USSR proved to be large enough that following the Battle of Besstrashnygrad in 1943, the USSR began to roll the Germans back despite the last-minute unveiling of supersoldiers created by the Reich. Maxim Isaev thwarted an attempt by the Germans to negotiate a peace with the western powers as the Soviets continued to march towards victory. Besstrashny’s forces ultimately were the ones to seize Berlin, bringing an end to the war in Europe. Postwar, Besstrashny initially promised to hold free elections across Eastern Europe, but it soon became clear the likes of Arztotska, Ixania, Novistrana, Novistan, Zubrowka, Drusselstein and Orsinia were going to be reduced to mere satellites of the Soviet Union. The ever-paranoid Besstrashny was fearful of another world war and refused to enable the West to threaten him. He was supportive of Mike Thingmaker’s communist regime in Britain and Rab Whitlow’s Ingsoc regime in Britain as they favored his interests. The Arkadins stole American nuclear secrets thanks to Thingmaker, but following the John Galt strike in the US and Harold Wharton’s coup in Britain, Besstrashny’s power waned and the Cold War began. In response, Besstrashny stepped up spying operations in America—his greatest accomplishment being the recruitment of Johnny Iselin as a communist spy, followed by heavy infiltration of Hollywood. The defection of Burt Gurney in 1952 was a major propaganda coup for his regime. He also began the Black Widow program to condition young Soviet women into top-tier assassins via brainwashing techniques in what was called the Red Room. Besstrashny’s government sent Irina Spalko to obtain supernatural artifacts possessed by the US, though this effort failed. Besstrashny also built a wall separating East and West Berlin and sent aid to the People’s Republic of China and North Hun Chiu during the Hun Chiu War. The infamous Russian Sleep Experiments were carried out under Besstrashny on political prisoners and yielded horrific results and Besstrashny also converted Steve Rogers’ former sidekick Bucky Barnes into the cyborg assassin known as the Winter Soldier, though the Nazi group HYDRA would take control of his activities before Besstrashny’s death. An alien race known as the Chimera briefly overran Russia and much of Europe in 1951 after having incubated within Russia since the Tunguska incident, but the invaders were ultimately dispatched by a coalition of armed forces. Ultimately, in 1953, the man who had ruled the USSR for decades would die of a cerebral hemorrhage (though he would live on by finding a way to become a Toon), sparking a major power struggle between Interior Minister (NKVD) Bela Razinin, Moscow Party Head Dmitri Kissoff, and Foreign Minister Varlam Aravidze

## **1950's**

### **Yuri Gletkin (CPSU)1953(*Darkness at Noon*)**

Gletkin was the handpicked puppet of Rezinin and intended to enforce his will on the country. Despite Gletkin’s ascent to power, his hold over the country remained weak thanks to the behind-the-scenes power struggle. Ultimately, Soviet General Georgi Kukov would arrest Rezinin on charges of sexual deviancy and he would be executed as a political move by Kissov. Kissov's final rival, Varlam Aravidze also found himself facing charges and fled to Pottsylvania, where he became the mayor of a small town until his death in 1987. Kissov took control of the country from Gletkin.

### **Dmitri Kissoff (CPSU)1953-1964(*Doctor Strangelove*)**

Kissoff was an alcoholic, but comparatively level-headed figure as opposed to his more brutal, thuggish predecessors. His rule over the USSR was dubbed the ‘Kissoff Thaw’ due to offering increased openness of the country. Kissoff helped fight off the third Mollusc, Triffid and Kanamit invasions and brought the USSR into the United Network Command for Law Enforcement to combat KAOS, THRUSH and SPECTRE. His government commissioned a computer network to further central economic planning, but this initiative was ended after he left office. The thaw provoked the scientist Dr. Vorlov to attempt to threaten both the USSR and the West with a bioweapon he had created, but a joint effort by the UK and USSR thwarted this scheme from succeeding. Kissoff’s government suffered a split with China emanating from the increasingly anti-Soviet attitude of Chairman Peng Tsing-Tse, though some cooperation continued. Kissoff’s government made a number of advances in the unusual sciences and supernatural research. His regime gained control of a djinn named Khottabych, which allowed for increased influence in the Middle East. The amphibious Itchyander also aligned with the Soviets to foster communist uprisings in Arthur Curry’s Atlantis and among the Deep Ones. The Katorga-12 catastrophe occurred during his government, but was covered up by Kissoff and his allies. His government also created a contingency Doomsday Device intended to dissuade nuclear strikes from the US, which nearly led to an apocalyptic event due to a rogue US general launching an airstrike on the USSR in 1958 that was fortunately averted. Kissoff worked with US President Merkin Muffley to thwart the attack, who he had a friendly relationship with. Kissoff’s government actively sought to spread communism abroad, backing revolutionaries in Gorotoland, San Theodoros and Tropico. The victory of the communist ‘El Presidente’ in Tropico angered the US and sparked CEA attempts to overthrow him. Kissoff, to dissuade this, placed nuclear missiles in the country, precipitating the Tropican Missile Crisis that nearly escalated into a nuclear war until a deal was reached between Kissoff and President John F.Kennedy. The submarine known as the *Octopus*ran aground in New England in 1960, sparking mild embarrassment to the government. The Galtist city-state of Rapture attacked the USSR on numerous occasions due to the leader Andrew Ryan’s resentment of the Soviet regime. The Soviet spy Sophia Lamb would take over Rapture following the collapse of Ryan’s government but be killed before additional Soviet forces showed up to acquire plasmids from the city. Kissov’s government greatly expanded the space program headed by Evgueni Spiridinov, launching the *Sirius, Vega*and *Capella*to Venus, where they discovered evidence of the Treen civilization on the planet. The US competed with the Soviets on this front, beginning the Space Race, but there was a brief cooperative effort to land on the Moon as part of a means to deal with overpopulation. The concurrent *Homeland*and *Typhoon*landings on Mars ended in disaster, stranding both the astronauts and cosmonauts involved. A SMERSH operative named Rosa Klebb defected to SPECTRE towards the end of Kissov’s government and attempted to extort his government. Ultimately, Kissoff’s alcoholic tendencies led to him being removed by the Politburo.

## **1960's**

### **Piotr Kamenev (CPSU) 1964-1971(*Shoes of the Fisherman*)**

Kamenev was selected as the natural leader of the post-Kissoff Communist Party. Kamenev’s government greatly stepped up occult research, launching Project Libitina and Project Rasputin under the auspices of the enigmatic Yuri Ivanov and Dr. Victor Grienko as part of an effort to bolster psychic forces for the USSR. These efforts led to the USSR developing a major psychic shield, but came at the cost of opening a rift to a parallel world rife with vampires and shrouded in eternal darkness and one experiment on 1000 children led to all but 5 dying. Kamenev also dispatched Soviet forces to Antarctica to investigate the city of the Elder Things located there, in the process turning the native Tsalal civilization and the neighboring island of Utopia into Soviet satellites while also acquiring Shoggoths for use by the Soviet military. SPECTRE attempted to provoke a war between the US and USSR during Kamenev’s regime, but was foiled by British intelligence. Kamenev provided advanced technology to the communist forces in Sarkhan, granting them lasers and super tanks the Soviets had developed on an experimental basis and utilized in some combat in outer space. The *Tantra*expedition was launched and nearly lost under Kamenev and the Solaris space station on the outskirts of the Solar System was completely lost. The loss of a Soviet space capsule led to the containment of a nasty tardigade species that would later cause an outbreak on Earth decades later. Kamenev began the ‘aquatic man’ program under Kamenev and also helped create the Chrysalis Project in an attempt to spread communism abroad. An inadvertent US nuclear strike was launched at Minsk and President Norcross permitted a retaliatory strike on Liberty City in response. The superheroine Octobriana first made her debut during Kamenev’s government. Kamenev ultimately elected to retire in 1971. He was later killed by the Furon Crypto and is the last Premier to be a member of the Blisk race.

## **1970's**

### **Alexander Romanov(CPSU)1971-1974(*Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2*)**

Romanov was the allies preferred choice to be the head of the USSR. The Allies believed they could manipulate him as a puppet. However he had intentions of his own. Romanov was a staunch supporter of Stalin, even having handed over his own young daughter Natasha to the Red Room. When Stalin died Romanov, hated the USSR's attempts to make peace with the West but played friendly until he got himself elected Premier with the US, including Natasha who had by this point defected to the US and who had recently joined the Avengers. This placed Romanov in what he thought was the perfect position to strike back at the US. He first began to prioritize the Space Race as he believed in the military potential of the technology. Yarmakov attempted to reach the Moon in 1972 via the *Vostok*expedition, but the American return to the Moon via the Pilgrim expedition got there first. A follow-up attempt ended up stranding Mikhail Karkhov on the Moon to die, but the USSR’s space program maintained its solid reputation after a cosmonaut saved the *Ironman One*crew from a similar fate. The *Ironman One* was Ironically named. Romanov had named it after his girlfriend's then partner, the hero Iron Man. It would be Iron Man and Natasha who would help bring down Romanov when he made his move, damaging the Pentagon. The US responded quickly and the short conflict was named the Russia War. Romanov's advisor Yuri turned traitor but was defeated. Romanov was killed in the conflict. While not a direct outcome, one could say the conflict had a profound effect on Tony Stark as he became a more self centered person, bragging about how his inventions helped stop the Russia War, even supporting his war profiteering. He would retire for a time after suffering from alcoholism and letting James Rhodes become Iron Man II. This would change in 2008 when Stark became a victim of his own weapon while visiting war torn Helmajistan.

### **Vasily Yermakov(CPSU) 1974-1982(*The Yermakov Transfer*)**

Yermakov’s government presided over a period of détente with the US after Romanov's death. He was briefly kidnapped while on a train, but was able to be rescued unharmed. The legendary Sannikov’s Land was destroyed by climate change during Yermakov’s term. A space probe intended to reach Venus crashed in the US during Yermakov’s premiership, sparking a crisis when it attempted to kill several Americans. This in part led to Yermakov winding down the space program going forward. The US and USSR nearly engaged in a nuclear war over the small island nation of Fernando Poo in 1975, though this ultimately was avoided. An experimental robot designed by the scientist Viktor Gromov managed to escape the lab it was created in and was briefly stolen by criminal groups before escaping. Yermakov signed arms reductions treaties with the US at the behest of Secretary of State Bruce Gold, opposed General Orlov’s efforts to spark a global war, sent operatives after a rogue KGB agent who was attempting to trigger Soviet sleeper cells in America without the Kremlin’s authorization and continued to project an air of détente.Yermakov ultimately proved disappointing to more hardline figures in the Kremlin and thus was removed from office.

## **1980's**

### **Anatoly Cherdenko(CPSU)1982-1986(*Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3*)**

Cherdenko was chosen to replace Yermakov on the basis that he was strongly against the West. Cherdenko invaded Adjikastan with Shoggoths, ordered KGB General Orlov to attempt to seize control of Britain’s missile arsenal and stepped up the ongoing Illegals infiltration program in the US but was prevented by KGB General Gogol and british agent James Bond. During Cherdenko’s premiership, a race of ultracapitalist alien reptilians known as the Visitors attempted to invade the Earth. Thanks to Cherdenko’s wariness of them, the USSR emerged more unscathed by the invasion and with a propaganda victory due to their ideological underpinnings. The *Red October*submarine was commissioned and defected during Cherdenko’s premiership and Misha Filitov was exposed as a CEA asset. Cherdenko was Premier when a ten-year-old American girl named Jenny Jones contacted him to question why he would want to use a nuclear bomb. Cherdenko responded by inviting her to the USSR and Jones ultimately defected to the Soviet Union, though this was covered up as her dying in a plane crash. The USSR clashed with the CEA sect known as the Firm several times during Cherdenko’s government. Cherdenko sent a team of operatives to infiltrate the US town of Hawkins to gain access to a parallel plane of existence that had been sparsely documented. Cherdenko’s premiership saw nuclear war nearly break out on Four occasions: following the Quark Bomb detonation of 1983, during the Hormuz crisis of 1984, the WOPR malfunction of 1983. A series of events in the Middle East timed with a poorly-conceived joke about bombing the USSR caused Cherdenko to awaken Cthulhu. However, the SCP Foundation’s intervention defeated the entity in Chernobyl, though residual eldritch influences created the region’s infamous exclusion zone. Further hostilities ended when The mutant Apocalypse destroyed the Soviet nuclear arsenal during Cherdenko’s premiership. The defeat of Ivan Drago at the hands of American boxer Rocky Balboa at a match attended by Cherdenko was a major blow to Soviet prestige experienced during his term in office. As Cherdenko’s premiership drew to a close, clashes between reformists and hardliners exacerbated behind the scenes. Cherdenko thus fell back on launching Operation Red Dawn, invading the US from Mexico as well as Europe. He used the Soviet intelligence apparatus to bring pro-Soviet figures to power in India, Britain and Japan and supported communist rebels in Mexico to drain US resources.The hardline Soviet General Vladimir Soshkin hired mercenaries to attack Hawaii in 1985 without Cherdenko’s consent. While they were pushed back, it highlighted the conflict that was likely to come. An angered Cherdenko would thus through his support behind the reformists despite his own skepticism of such a mindset. General Alexei Vasilievich Guba attempted to further spark World War III in 1985, but was ultimately thwarted. The Soviet psychic Boris Rubanenko attempted to launch nuclear weapons at both the West and the East in a bid to enable a psychic takeover of the world during Cherdenko’s tenure. Rival psychics managed to prevent this goal from being achieved. World War III again broke out only for Adrian Veidt to transport a giant squid into Manhattan, causing a ceasfire to deal with a supposed alien threat. A subsequent attack framed as an assault by Dr.Manhattan would kill Cherdenko.

### **Andrei Narmonov (CPSU)1986-1987(*Jack Ryan Series*)**

Narmonov was an advocate of reducing tensions between the US and USSR and winding down the Cold War. His policies of glasnost and perestroika made the USSR far more open than it had been. His premiership, a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl experienced a meltdown thanks to incompetence. His overtures of peace towards the US angered hardliners within the Soviet government, who would launch a unsuccessful coup against Narmonov. The USSR lost control of the Sechnov Facility during Narmonov’s term at the helm of the USSR due to a robotic uprising. Narmonov designed his own version of Johnny Cyclops's Star Wars program. Narmonov began a program to create super soldiers. For this, Narmonov was confronted by four Gypsy Pit Fighters, in actuality four highly trained agents, former hunter Sergei Kravinoff, now a balding pit fighter suffering from cancer and abandoned by the Venom Symbiote, Boris, a former Soviet Commando, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a man disgruntled with the Soviet Union after being sent to a Work camp despite being innocent, and the undercover Natasha Romanoff. The four defeated waves of soldiers sent after them. Narmonov was able to strike the fighters with a hallucinogenic drug while he escaped, making the group believe they had killed him and he faked his death, which included stepping down from his position. After his term, Narmonov supported the creation of several superstrong Russian individuals, supporting Zangief in the Street Fighter tournament and ordered Ivan Drago to go after the aged Rocky Balboa for a rematch in 2008. While retired, Narmonov engaged in a rap battle with clones of Rasputin and Stalin, which were interrupted by the resurrected Vladimir Lenin and the then Russian President Viktor Petrov.

### **Gorny(CPSU)1987(*World War III*)**

Replacing Narmonov, Gorny was forced to deal with an international incident in which Soviet Commander Alexander Vorashin invaded Alaska in response to American and Canadian trade embargos, resulting in an armed military conflict. Gorny was not in power for very long, as during the conflict the KGB, enraged by food shortages caused by the embargos, assassinated Gorny with a car bomb while he was visiting his son Sasha's school.

### **Georgy Antonov(CPSU)1987-1989(*Dirk Pitt*)**

Taking control of the Soviet Union and preventing a Nuclear War Antonov, quickly changed tactics to a more subtle assault, operating Operation Huckeberry Finn and kidnapping President Samuel Arthur Tresch to bring him briefly under soviet control. The Mujahedeen insurgency began in Adjikastan in the wake of the invasion thanks to the efforts of US soldier John Rambo. A Spetnaz officer sent to assassinate the Mombakan rebel leader Sundata defected to his cause, hurting Antonov’s ambitions in Africa and rogue KGB operatives threatened to detonate a nuclear device in the Middle East in a bid to force Israel out of the West Bank. Antonov was killed in a Nuclear Strike along with President Samuel Baker.

### **Vladimir Soshkin (CPSU) 1989-1990(*World War III the Movie*)**

An authoritarian hardliner, Soshkin returned the world atmosphere to that of the harshest times of the Cold War. Soshkin deployed the MiG-31 aircraft and, thanks to limited nuclear strikes on China, Kansas City and Sheffield initially had the upper hand. However, uprisings within the occupied territories and the Soviet bloc itself weakened Soshkin’s hold. The launch of the ‘Old Dog’ aircraft crippled Soviet offensive capabilities and destroyed all MiG-31 craft. Britain entered the war on the side of the US, bolstering NATO defenses in Europe. Ultimately, this culminated in a popular uprising headed by Illya Nickovitch Kuryakin ousting Soshkin from power.

## **1990's**

### **Illya Nickovitch Kuryakin(CPSU)1990-1991(*The Man From U.N.C.L.E.*)**

Little is known fo Kuryakin due to his position on the KGB. Kuryakin was consistently referred to as a "Russian"; however, he appeared to have spent at least some of his childhood in Kyiv, Ukraine and his name is spelled the Ukrainian way not the Russian way (Illya vs Iliya). He was Number Two in Section Two (Operations and Enforcement) at U.N.C.L.E. headquarters in New York City (1964-1968). He seemed to be a Soviet citizen of good standing rather than a defector. He was recalled to the USSR to help deal with a crisis. He was referred to as "the first lieutenant in the Russian navy to set fire to an igloo,". Kurakin immediately signed a peace treaty in Arendelle upon assuming leadership of the USSR. In addition, Kuryakin willingly allowed the various rebelling Soviet satellites and constituent nations to pursue freedom, bringing an end to the Eastern Bloc and the Cold War as a whole. The Soviet Union was reduced to being in name only, being only in control of Russia. Early in Kuryakin;s term, the Great Khanate attempted to claim control of Siberia and would have succeeded had the US not allowed Russia into NATO and come to their aid. This marked the beginning of the Russian involvement in the Eugenics Wars, which would continue to the conclusion. Kuryakin was able to escape the next coup against him thanks to the intervention of the time traveler Alisa Selezneva. He would eventually be pardoned.

### **Vladmir Kruschkin(Independent)1991-1996(*Canadian Bacon*)**

Khan Noonien Singh backed Russian hardliners in a coup attempt against Kruschkin towards the end of the conflict, but this effort failed. Krushkin also supported the Global Defense Initiative’s war against the Brotherhood of Nod. Rogue elements of the Soviet government attempted to weaponize the GoldenEye satellite weapon system during his premiership but were ultimately thwarted. The Kruschkin government would have many other struggles, however. Corruption and crime became rampant in Russia during his time in office and groups like the Hotel Moscow, the Roundhead Organization and the Skobel Group grew in number and influence. Elements of the military led by Vladimir Radchenko mounted an uprising against Karpov’s government and threatened the use of nuclear weapons following a war in Chechnya). US intervention proved necessary to avoid Radchenko’s followers from following through on the threat. This made Kruschkin seemed weak to the public. He would be killed in the Harvester invasion.

### **Sergei Karpov (Independent) 1996-1999(*The Saint*)**

Karpov was able to defeat the Fithp and Harvester invasions. Early in Karpov’s government implemented democracy and brought American-Soviet relations to their ultimate high point after helping save First Lady Abigail Bartlet from the assassin known as the Jackal. Moscow experienced a gang war between a criminal gang made up of deaf people and one made up of mute people. A generation of oligarchs earned wealth from the rapid privatization of government functions. Additionally, the proverbial fallout of the Cold War very much continued to haunt Eastern Europe—a compound of former Soviet commandos who had been brainwashed under Soshkin couldn’t be rehabilitated and were left alone until they attacked several British civilians. Extremist groups began to proliferate throughout Russia as a result of the backlash to Karpov’s policies, including the ultranationalist Ushi Party headed by Vladimir Makarov, the bioweapon-armed Anarchy 99 group of Yorgi Sorba and Igor Kramov’s Union of Patriotic Forces. Kramov would be a leading presidential candidate in the 1998 Russian presidential election, but would be defeated following revelations of his imperialistic and genocidal plans for Russia.

### **Pyotr Chigorin(United Russia)1999-2002(*The West Wing*)**

A former officer of the KGB with a twenty-year service record, Chigorin was elected president in an election that was considered rigged by many Western analysts. His past record also caused alarm to the US government but Chigorin presented himself as a president who was favourable to better relations between the US and Russia. He is also believed to be a reformer who supported enhanced protection of the environment and reduction of Russia's nuclear stockpile. Prior to his first meeting with President Bartlet at a summit in Helsinki, American intelligence discovered that the Russians had been supporting Asranian efforts to create a heavy water reactor in Arak for its nuclear program. If the intelligence was right, President Bartlet would not be able to meet Chigorin. Determined to meet the American president, Chigorin sent a message through his negotiating team which he personally wrote as a covert message to President Bartlet. The message made clear Chigorin's interest in meeting his American counterpart to discuss the nuclear issue. Bartlet, believing this meant Chigorin may not have supported the support to Asran, agreef to travel to Helsinki and meet the Russian president. Chigorin’s United Russia Party was right-wing but less radical than the Ushiites or Kramov was. Chigorin sought to curb the excesses of the oligarchs in Russia. His government helped beat the Yeerk invasion and had to handle the fallout of a massive storm that nearly destroyed Moscow. The storm was created by magic and was only prevented from totally destroying the city by the actions of Anton Gorodetsky in getting the unwitting creator of the storm to abate it. Terrorists aligned with Yorgi Sorba would cause a train crash that led to a nuclear bomb going off and attempt another nuclear attack before being thwarted. He would resign following this event.

## **2000's**

### **Ivan Krutin (United Russia)2002-2005(*Monica in the Kremlin*)**

Krutin would finally scrap the name ‘Soviet Union,’ officially renaming the country the Russian Federation. Krutin’s government was impacted by the beginning of the War on Terror after the 9/11 attacks on the US. A group of Umayyad Revolutionary Council-aligned terrorists threatened to use nuclear weapons on Moscow, but were exposed by a publisher and thwarted before the plot could be carried out. Supernatural influences in Moscow grew in influence during Krutin’s government thanks in part to the actions of the gangster Slava. Krutin aligned himself with many of the country’s oligarchs like Sergei Surkov to maintain power. He backed Kombayn Nickoladze’s attempted coup in Pottsylvania as part of an effort to increase Russian power. Vladikov additionally would hold a referendum on the restoration of the Tsar, initially planning for Stefan Baklanov to take the role of Tsar as a distant descendent of the original Romanov family. However, eventually a descendent of the Duchess Anastasia, born after she escaped death in Red October, was discovered and appointed Tsar instead. The submarine captain Mikhail Yerastov partnered with the URC against Krutin’s wishes during her term in office. A group of Russian military personnel attempted to provoke Britain into attacking a Russian airplane to allow the Ushi Party to take power, but were foiled. Krutin’s presidency would ultimately be undone by a sex scandal between Krutin and KGB agent Monica Lewinsky who had, ironically, helped trigger the downfall of US President Bud Hammond five years prior. Krutin was thus forced to resign.

### **Sergei Platov(United Russia)2005-2009(*Trinity Six)***

Platov was a former KGB agent and took office following Krutin's resignation. During his term, the Russian superhero Dima Maykov began acting during Platov’s term in office as the second Black Lightning. Platov used a primitive time travel device to make the Russian State Hermitage Museum capable of granting VIPs access to dates in the past as a part of his efforts to reassert Russian national prestige. Platov’s government sought to curb the existence of extremist groups within Russia by reasserting national prestige and consulted with the Universal Manufacturing Company to devise propaganda for his regime. The undead Pharaoh Nemenkhotep IV attacked Russia during his government but was beaten. Platov’s government had to reckon with the Zentraedi invasion, the Kira murders, the revelation of vampires’ existence to the public and the Pluto’s Kiss virus like the rest of the world. Platov’s government did cooperate somewhat in attempting to provide the US with the Neski files, but is rumored to have supported the oligarch Yuri Gretkov’s attempts to sabotage the deal to hand the information over. Due to the rules of the Russian Constitution, Platov was ineligible to run for another term in 2008. He instead gravitated towards the position of Prime Minister and allowed his own adopted daughter to succeed him.

### **Irina Vladimirovna Putina(United Russia)2009-2010(*My Girlfriend is the President*)**

A teenage girl struck with negative feedback from a UFO crashing into Japan. Putina was a practicing Judoka who was ironically sensitive to the cold. She briefly fell in love Junichirō Hondō after he saved her life despite him dating President Yukino Ohama. Putina’s government had to handle the aftermath of the FlashForward as well as the ramifications of the worldwide economic recession. Putina was supportive of Choi Kim’s negotiated reunification of Hun Chiu and made Russia among the first nations to recognize Greater Hun Chiu. She would step down in favor of Matveyev taking the Presidency.

## **2010's**

### **Boris Matveyev(United Russia) 2010-2012(*Salt*)**

Matveyev was seen by Platov as relatively pliable and was widely considered a puppet of the former president. Matveyev was the target of a conspiracy of former Soviet sleeper agents embedded in America to trigger a war between the US and Russia, but the scheme was ultimately thwarted. Matveyev would become opposed to US foreign policy overseas, in particular the removal of Haffaz Aladeen from power in Wadiya. However, this alienation from the West did not stave off the increasing popularity of fanatical ultranationalists within the Ushi Party, who became increasingly hostile to his government. Petrov’s government struggled to handle the Ushiite uprising and was further undermined by many of Petrov’s decisions. He gave intelligence to the US to kill Ushi Party leader Imran Zakhaev for his ties to Khaled Al-Asad, who had destroyed Agrabah with a nuclear weapon as he was on the brink of defeat in the Qumari Civil War. Following the Awakening of Magic, Petrov immediately forced the Russian Ministry of Magic to subordinate to his government, sparking a magic-fueled uprising headed by Farit Kozhennikov Matveyev was ultimately assassinated in a large-scale terrorist attack launched by the radical Ushi Party affiliate known as the Founders that killed the Russian President as well as Prime Minister Platov.

### **Viktor Petrov (United Russia) 2012-2014(*House of Cards*)**

A former KGB agent, Petrov had been a longtime member of the United Russia Party and been an ally of the various predecessors to his government. Petrov’s first problem was the beginning of the Russian Civil War between the government he led and the Ultranationalist Ushi Party. Petrov’s government also backed an uprising in the Ukraine against the central government and annexed Hav, alienating major western powers. Support from the Envoy of Strength (a supernatural copy of a Russian-Ukrainian veteran of the Afghan War) was crucial in securing Hav and the Eastern Ukraine for Petrov. Corruption remained rampant in Petrov’s Russia, with Petrov’s allies like Mayor Vadim getting away with whatever they wanted. Petrov’s government gave asylum to Eric Cartman after he leaked details of the government’s mass surveillance programs in 2013. Petrov supported tech billionaire Raymond Valentine’s hate plague, which failed. Petrov's cousin Dmitri served as a double agent for the Americans while in the Russian army and helped force him out of power, to replace him with an official that would support US relations.

### **Pavel Ostrov (United Russia) 2014-2015(*Madam Secretary*)**

Pavel Ostrov was a Russian President more willing to make peace with the US than Petrov and was the most likely to succeed him. Petrov however remained an influential figure and many viewed Ostrov as a puppet of Petrov. There was tension between Ostrov and President Underwood and at the time it seemed the US and Russia had practically switched places, with Underwood acting in a very Petrov like manner and Ostrov being more westernized in his running of Russia. Ironically his death would fuel tensions with the West. Ostrov was ultimately murdered by his power-hungry wife who framed it as an assassination by the US.

### **Maria Ostrov(United Russia) 2015(*Madame Secretary*)**

Maria Ostrov ascended to power quickly despite not technically being in the line of succession and marked the beginning of the era of colder relations with the West. While Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord negotiated some with the first female leader of Russia, Ostrov largely remained obstinate. Ostrov would ultimately be killed by a terrorist attack tha twas actually a Coup organized by the Ushi party.

### **Boris Vorshevsky(Ushi/Independent) 2015-2016(*Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3*)**

Vorshevsky was a more moderate member of the Ushi Party compared to the party leader Makarov and quickly earned the ire of hardliners. Vorshevsky wanted to consolidate power in Russia rather than begin expansionist efforts and only wanted to unite Russian-speaking people whereas hardliners wished to regain the borders of the Soviet Union or old Russian Empire, alienating Makarov and his supporters. Vorshesky aided Xcom in repelling the Furon invasion. Russia along with the rest of the world was temporarily annexed into the Galactic Federation, which provided his government some respite from the Makarov led Ultranationalist uprising as Federation peacekeepers helped keep a lid on things until the collapse of the Federation’s government. Once the annexation ended Makarov’s forces orchestrated a terrorist massacre at a Russian airport and pinning the blame on an American operative, which forced Vorshevsky to begin a war with the West. After initial offensive successes, the President realized that he could not win and Vorshevsky sought a peace agreement with President Underwood. Afterwards, the Ushi Party uprising caused a loss of influence elsewhere-the Westernized Barry Al-Fayeed succeeded his pro-Russian father as the leader of Abbudin. He imposed laws against the Russian LGBT community and sought to ostracize Olympic figure skater Viktor Nikiforov after it was revealed he was gay. After the war, he was eventually removed from power after being blamed from the war.

### **Salnikov(United Russia) 2016(*Madame Secretary*)**

Salnikov was made President after the war, once more by the US, as Pavel Ostrov had been. It was very clear that he was simply a placeholder to deal with the aftermath and he was expected to stand down once a successor was chosen.

### **Valeri Volodin(United Russia)2016-2019(*Jack Ryan Series*)**

Volodin's successor was more aggressive than Salnikov but not entirely. Russia's ally Vladislav Dukhovich as ousted in Belarus. Professor August Kuratov seized control of advanced Russian military robotics as part of an effort to aid the Ushi Party in taking over Russia, forcing Volodin to revive the Soviet-era Patriot Organization. Volodin intervened in the 2016 US presidential election to boost Herbert Garrison against his longtime rival Frank Underwood, providing leaked evidence of Underwood’s crimes given to him by Victor Petrov and crime-like acts to the Rising Tide hacktivist leader Dan Hern. Following this, Russia still experienced problems. The crash-landing of a spaceship operated by the alien Hekon caused Moscow experienced major unrest. Grigori Stoyanovich headed a renewed Ushiite uprising and was briefly given technology from a future where he took over the entire world to aid in his revolt before time travelers thwarted his army. Half of the Russian population was killed by Thanos in 2018 along with the rest of the universe, though this was later undone. Vorshevsky was forced to institutionalize all the children of Tashlinsk following an incident involving the ‘Aquatters’ in the city. The Ushi Party-affiliated terrorist Akan created an army of cyborgs intended to provoke worldwide instability via a series of terrorist attacks before being killed by one of his own cyborg troops. In 2019, hardline elements of the military angered by his peaceful overtures towards the West in atonement for the war he launched mounted a coup against his government.

### **Victor Zaitsev(Russian Star Front) 2019(*Vanquish*)**

Zaitsev was a general with ultranationalist sympathies who headed a group dubbed the Russian Star Front. The RSF was formed from the right wing of the Ushi Party—that is, the more traditionalist nationalists who harkened back towards the old Russian Empire rather than the glory of the USSR like Makarov or Stoyanovich did even as they embraced nationalist beliefs. Zaitsev backed a number of groups that he believed would destabilize America, including the Left Eye. Ultimately frustrated by the failures of these groups, Zaitsev aligned with US President Elizabeth Winters to provoke a false-flag war that would allow both to consolidate power. Zaitsev used a satellite weapon to kill much of the San Fransokyo population. However, the scheme was soon exposed and Winters committed suicide. With his partner’s death and the destruction of the weapon, Zaitsev was deposed by his own followers to allow for alternative measures to be pursued.

### **Vselovod Kapalkin(Russian Star Front) 2019-2020(*EndWar*)**

Kapalkin was focused and businesslike. To his peers he always seemed a little bored, on the verge of annoyance. He was athletic and stayed in shape by swimming and lifting weights daily. He ruled Russia in an iron grasp, making him hated by some Russians and even was the target of a failed assassination attempt. Kapalkin threw Zaitsev under the bus to maintain control of Russia. However, he soon would proceed to prove just as authoritarian, only far shrewder. Kapalkin was an advocate of the Optimum ideology originating in China and formed a closer relationship with the country. Kapalkin’s government benefitted economically from the Resource Wars, as Russia became one of the last sources of oil in the world. Several nuclear reactors in Russia were targeted by the KVA along with elsewhere in the world. Kapalkin meddled in Britain’s EU membership referendum to help boost Brexit and spread instability to Europe. This was done to ensure European disunity as he furthered Russian support to Ukrainian rebel groups, which ultimately allowed Kapalkin’s Russia to oust the government of Vasyl Pertovych Holoborodko and finally annex the country into the Russian Federation. Kapalkin encouraged unrest against President David Jefferson Adams, including providing arms to the conspiracy that destroyed 23 cities with atomic bombs. Kapalkin took advantage of the situation to invade Alaska, but in doing so ran afoul of the Greater Hun Chiu Republic, who was attempting to occupy the West Coast. After refusing to back down, Kapalkins government was destroyed by a Hun Chiu nuclear strike on Moscow that wiped out most of the government.

### **Nikolai Vladekov(RSF) 2020-2026(*Shattered Union*)**

Vladekov increased government support to the Russian Orthodox Church and increasingly restricted the rights of Jews and LGBT individuals. He additionally targeted ‘demonic’ nonhumans in Russia for persecution. During Vladekov’s government, the Combine occupied Earth and set up their capital within Russian borders, though eventually they were pushed out. Vladekov used a teleportation device originating from the planet Plyuk to send cosmonauts to a planet inhabited by humanoid aliens that were centuries behind humanity, though the intervention accidentally caused the destruction of that world’s society and the device ultimately broke. The Thanos Snap was undone during his term in office. The Restoration of the Tsar would lead to Platonovich taking power.

## **2020's**

### **Nikolai Platonovich (House Romanov) 2026-2034(*Day of the Oprichnik*)**

The power of the presidency was consolidated with the restored Tsar Nikolai Platonovich. Platonovich, who resided in the old capital of St. Petersburg, survived a Hun Chiu attack. To maintain his authority, Platonovich did not attempt to reassert control over or rebuild Moscow, allowing it to be reduced to a series of underground settlements led by extremist factions like the Red Line and the Fourth Reich. Platonovich’s government sought to return to the traditional Russian Empire’s way of doing things. He revived torturous punishments and titles from the age of Ivan the Terrible and made the Russian Orthodox Church the state religion. He built a wall along the Russian frontier and denounced all forms of foreign interference. Despite this, Platonovich did accept the sterility plague vaccine from China and his country would become increasingly reliant on China for resources in the aftermath of Hun Chiu’s collapse. Platonovich’s Russia would briefly be targeted by an alien race that regarded Earth’s lack of a ‘Temple’ as proof the precursor ‘Seeder’ race considered them enemies, but they were ultimately repelled. Platonivich was also compelled to support the Earth’s war effort against the Invid. Platonovich’s undoing would come from his favoritism towards Russian peoples and disregard for minority groups, which made up a large portion of the population of Siberia. This provoked a major uprising in the region that drained many Russian resources. The Second Jihad movement also targeted Russia along with Europe due to the role that Russia had played in targeting Chechen and Central Asian Muslims. The Red Line group finally escaped confinement under the ruins of Moscow thanks to Moskvin’s rebuilding efforts and launched an uprising against the Tsar. These things combined led to agitation for democratic reforms that exceeded his government’s ability to crack down. Thus, in 2034, Platonivich was forced to hold a dual election and referendum on the future of the Tsardom in Russia. He ended up losing both.

## **2030's**

### **Maxim Moskvin (Communist Party of State Security) 2034-2037(*Metro 2033*)**

Moskvin had headed the Red Line group under the ruins of Moscow for almost a decade by the time he reemerged as the self-declared Genialissmus. Moskvin, in order to consolidate power, formed an alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church and the NKVD to set up a neo-Soviet state that established an omnipresent, totalitarian regime. The only escape for most Russians under Moskvin was the Deeptown system buried beneath all of Moskvin’s online censorship programs. he would be overthrown by a rebellion led by Dominika Egorova.

### **Dominika Egorova (Democratic Reconstructionist) 2037-2042(*Red Sparrow*)**

Egorova would prove to be the last gasp of democracy in Russia. Her government struggled to put a lid on the Siberian uprising, but was foiled. Egorova also would funnel aid to anti-Gilead rebels in North America as part of a reversal of Platonovich’s isolationism and sought to secularize the country. Egorovoa was more defiant than most world leaders were towards SERN, but as a result was made as isolated as her more authoritarian predecessors. The resulting economic slump led to many embracing a second life in the AlterWorld, a Russian counterpart to the OASIS. Egorova’s government would end up unraveling in 2042. Her government was additionally delegitimized when it was revealed to the public she had been a CEA asset from 2019 to 2032, making her seem a puppet of the old US and making her opposition to Gilead seem driven by dual loyalty. The being known as Grandmaster Meio began his campaign of worldwide conquest during Moskvin’s rule and would set up his capital in St. Petersburg before being defeated. Moscow temporarily experienced incursions from a world where the Axis won the Second World War during Moskvin’s regime. Ultimately, food shortages and Meio’s invasion led to Moskvin’s government losing popularity. This paved the way for yet another imperial restoration in 2042.

## **2040's**

### **Sim Karnavalov (House Karnavalov) 2042-2077(*Moscow 2042*)**

Karnavalov had been a dissident author during past authoritarian regimes, but declared himself the ruler of an equally authoritarian regime. Karnavalov declared himself the Czar of All Russia, but did pursue a more secular and pragmatic policy than Moskvin had. Under Karnalov, Meio was defeated and Russia regained control of Siberia. Karnalov backed the Federated Nations’ expedition to pursue the Tarsians and contended with the outbreak of the Flare Virus in Russia. His government also provided support to the expedition to ensure the Sun did not go out. Russia under Karnalov stayed out of the World Union program to encourage global unity on behalf of megacorporations and provided shelter to the rebellious Renovators group. His government nonetheless supported the war effort against the machine city-state of Zero One, in part due to Karnalov’s Luddite tendencies. However, in 2054, Karnalov was removed from power in a coup due to accusations he was a puppet of the Illuminati conspiracy revealed the previous year.

Karnalov provided support to the *Unity*colonization mission, sending Russia’s top scientist Prokhor Zakharov along with it as an advocate of Optimum ideology. Karnalov, along with the Chinese government, had aspirations of taking over the world for their ideology. To that end, Karnalov sabotaged the US *Freedom Star* space station at the urging of the AI known as Archangel Michael he had developed to advance Russian interests. This provoked a brief war between Europe and America, but the truth was eventually revealed and Russia and China found themselves at war with the US and Europe. An undeterred Karnalov launched an invasion of Eastern Europe and took over several Eastern European countries, but eventually began to be pushed back. However, Karnavalov intended to pass on the leadership of Russia to a different person before things got too bad. Ultimately, Karnavalov saw the writing on the wall and favored peace negotiations. The Lunar Revolution threatened peace talks and the rise of Robert L. Booth in the US derailed them. Archangel Michael convinced Karnavalovto attack the US with nuclear weapons. Karnavalov was killed in the war.

## **2070's**

### ***Chaos Era 2077-2088***

For over a decade, Russia totally lacked a central authority. Multiple claimants to power arose. The Archangel Michael AI claimed a large swath of Russia as part of the Robot War and, taking the name AM, killed most humans and tortured the ones who remained until it lost power. A portion of Russia was replaced by portions of the Blazing World, becoming part of the Land of Ooo under the rule of Simon Petrikov, also known as the Ice King. The city-state of Nasograd was founded by the first Benefactor Vladimir Sagdiyev, the descendent of an Ardistani propagandist. The genetic-engineering geared DUPA Genetics carved out a fiefdom of land near the border of Ooo and the Vampire Lords took over another chunk of Russia. An area known as ‘The Zone’ or ‘The Portal’ warped physics in part of Russia. Warlords like Rodan and Fyodor Kuzmischk arose to power in various parts of Russia. While there were fewer monstrosities within Russia than elsewhere, the situation was highly chaotic and took years to be resolved.

## **2080's**

### **Nikolai Dvorak (I) 2088-2098(*Judge Dredd*)**

Ultimately, order would be partially restored by Dvorak, a Judge modeled after the Americans’. Dvorak would establish East Meg City as the closest thing to a successor the Russian government had. During his rule, the Psychosphere and Spirit Councils emerged as a challenge to his authority, but were ultimately defeated. His government would have to contend with a few alien invasions, but ultimately would become a member of the Terran Federation very early on, bringing an end to Russian history as an independent nation. However, the Russian identity remained strong and some rebellious factions in the future such as the Eurasian Dynasty, the Putchkin Alliance and the Second Warsaw Pact. Overall, however, Russia would become a core member state of the world government for as long as it lasted.