Pretty much the same apart for a sightly different 2007 elections:
Russia Resurgent - A TL
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Rivercat893
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Giuliani is in power. Let's see if he'll be able to serve two terms in the White House. Also, as I mentioned before I think it would be useful to add a sub-chapter about what pop culture looks like in a world where the Eurasian Union State exists especially with historical butterflies left and right.
You do have to remember that for now the Eurasian union state is like the EU and is not a United state to really have massive differences.
With Giuliani in power tensions between the three biggest superpowers will surely increase; this could help Russia get closer to the EU and especially to China. I also see the republicans pushing for regime change in Iran and Libia
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Well glad that Russia started dismantled the France neo colonies, and I’m definitely interested in seeing in this tl if Britain will leave the eu and of course hoping that the 2010 uk defence reviews wouldn’t be as bad as our world
Maybe in TTL the gold dinar proposed by Libya in OTL will be implemented?
Maybe, btw sorry to ask but i forget about this, did the CSTO, have their own currency
Well if the CSTO have their own currency, than the gold dinar wouldn’t be needed to be created, since with CSTO controlling some of the oil rich region, they could challange the dollar
Chapter 54: Popular Culture and Sports during the Chancellorship of Grigory Yavlinsky.
Chapter 54: Popular Culture and Sports during the Chancellorship of Grigory Yavlinsky.
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Being one of the first few countries in the world to be interested in telecommunications, animation and moving pictures in general, which stemmed from the Russian Empire itself, the Czardom of Russia or back then the Russian Federation did not disappoint on the fact that it had a lot going for itself in terms of popular culture.
Timur Bekmambetov is a famous Russian director of Kazakh origin.
In late 1996, the first caretaker movie to be released in Russia under President Grigory Yavlinsky would be the movie Chechnya which depicted the Chechen Wars in all their brutality. The movie followed the life of an ethnic Chechen, who was indifferent to the idea of an independent Chechnya, good if it was, good if it wasn’t, both. However as the war drags on, and both sides commit brutal reprisals against the other, the main character is caught between a rock and hard place, which causes him to turn to the FSB to protect his wife, an ethnic Russian and their child, a half Russian and half Chechen. The movie is not well-known outside of Russia or the Eurasian Union, however for the people of Russia itself, the movie is a master piece and shows how hard life was during the hard times after the fall of the Soviet Union.
As the Russian economy continued to recover from the fall of the Soviet Union, the status of Russian telecommunications and all that it entailed continued to grow better as well. The famed soviet animation studio Soyuzmultfilm returned from being a leased animation studio to a full-fledged animation studio under partial governmental ownership, though around 2/3 were owned by private investors. Soyuzmultfilm remains Russia’s largest and perhaps wealthiest animation studios and is the home to multiple famous animated movies and television series. It also produces a side channel in the Russian cable known as Detskiy Kanal which was a children’s cartoon channel which had multiple cartoon shows running for children. In the separate republics of Russia back then, the series were dubbed in their indigenous recognized minority languages as well.
As one of the major drivers for the stabilization of the Russian economy became electronics and their gadgets, television and telecommunications came into the limelight soon enough as well. Russian cinema as a result also got a boost and investment into the cinema industry was also encouraged by the government. The shares of the cinema industry grew by around 21% in the entire year of 1996 alone.
In 1997, the blockbuster film that became famous throughout the Cyrillic reading world, The Thief was released by Russian studios directed by Pavel Chukhray. The movie depicts the life of a young boy, Dmitry, just aged 7 in the city of Leningrad when Operation Barbarossa hits the Soviet Union. His father is conscripted in the Red Army, and his mother dies in a bombing raid on the city, leaving Dmitry parentless and an orphan. Describing the journey of Dmitry from 1941 to 1945, where he lives throughout the Siege of Leningrad, and through war miseries, the movie ends with him reuniting with his father in 1945, becoming one of the few Soviet troops who survived the 1941-45. The movie is known for using less amount of dialogue, instead capturing the dread of the moments through sound and animation effects. The movie was praised for being an extremely accurate description of war.
A poster of The Thief.
That same year a new movie was released by another Russian studio, called The NKVD which highlighted the life of a low NKVD soldier during the height of the Red Terror. The story progresses as the soldier becomes increasingly unhinged showing the despairs that an intelligence soldier had to cope with during their darkest times. Both movies would be brought forward in the Cannes movie festival later on, and receive a lot of praise.
Russian films in the 1990s started to revolve around the Soviet Union, with many highlighting how a normal day in the USSR was back in its early days. Two Television serials however would stand out. The first was Kaluk. This television serial follows the life of a son of a Kaluk as he see’s all that he once owned and earned, seized from him, living in abject poverty and trying to get by in the earliest days of Soviet Russia. The second was Chernobyl. Chernobyl is a popular television series in Russia started in mid-1997 which goes in detail about the Chernobyl explosion. It was shot and produced in conjunction with several Ukrainian and Belarusian studios.
Russian cinema also has a name for itself in the Horror genre. Russian horror films are very famous in Slavic countries, and the Central Asian countries, as well as Mongolia, South Korea, Japan and China. For example, the movie The Son and the Mother released in 1998 revolves around a son and a mother living in Siberia in 1910 with the mother’s husband having been a killed soldier during the Russo-Japanese War. The story revolves around an abandoned church nearby with something haunting them. The film is regarded as the first of a series of successful horror films produced in Russia. This movie would also go to inspire one of the most iconic games of the late 1990s, Silent Hill produced by Konami.
1. A poster of the Mother and Son 2. logo of Silent Hill.
Meanwhile Russian animation also grew once again, and the animated movie The Old Man and the Sea released in 1999 was also a praise worthy film that became the highest grossing animated movie made by Russia in the 1990s. The plot follows the book of the same name written in 1952.
Russian videogame industry however was in its infancy. The USSR did have a small videogame industry, however most of them were cheap knockoffs of western arcades. As such, the Russian videogame industry had to be built from ground upwards. In 1997, the first Russian videogame firm, Kompaniya Animatsionykh igr or simply KAI in short was established in Kazan, Russia, and would soon become the videogame giant of Russia, with it’s first video game, Ivan Pirat or Ivan the Pirate follows a 1990s rpg game format which details the life of Ivan, one of the rare few Russian pirates which were active in the Caribbean sea. It would not be successful outside of Russia, however it would remain successful within Russia itself.
However the most iconic Russian television serial of all would be introduced in 2001, called The Romanovs. The Romanovs is a Russian television channel, also dubbed in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Chechen, Kazakh, and English, which depicts the lives of the Russian monarchs and nobility ever since the reign of Tsar Mikhail I of Russia. It depicts their ups and downs, their high points and low points as well as their strengths and weaknesses to great effects. The show is also credited with the fact that it introduced many young Russians to the former Russian monarchy, and it may have influenced some of the swing voters during the 2004 Russian monarchical referendum.
a scene from the Romanovs TV series.
Russians also became big fans of British television. Radio 1 and Channel 4 become large sectors of Russian television lives by the end of the century.
In the 2000s, Russian cinema boomed. It became one of Russia’s largest industrial sectors. Television series also became a large part of Russian culture, and the current top 5 Russian tv shows are:-
Detektiv. The show follows a young Russian detective as a part of the Okhrana during the 1905 Russian Revolution and beyond.
Lyubit. A romantic soap opera following the love lives of a rich Russian nobleman in the Victorian Era who falls in love with a serf woman.
Shpion. A tv series following the life of a KGB agent living in America during the height of the cold war.
Zhizn. A tv series following the life of a simple farmer during the Cold war as he experiences the changes of the Soviet Union, living from 1901 to 1987.
Svyashcenik. The series follows the life of an Orthodox priest from 1922 to 1967, following his struggle to keep his faith and keep the faith of others too in an openly atheist nation.
As the videogaming sector in Russia grew as well, several new games were influenced by Russian gaming. A medium scale Russian video game studio, Infinity Gaming was also bought by Activision, a videogaming giant from the USA, creating an Activision branch in Russia. The Activision Russian Branch would also create several games called Chest’ I zhertva which are Russian FPS games set in World War 1, World War 2 and several cold war conflicts. However the biggest change in Russian gaming would be in 2007, when the world famous game series Call of Duty published their new gaming series, called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The story takes place in the year 2008, where a radical leader has executed the leader of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, and a neo-soviet force in Russia sparks an insurgency alongside nationalistic insurgencies on part from Chechnya and Ingushetia. The conflicts are seen from the perspective of a US Marine Force Recon sergeant, a British SAS operator, and a Russian Spetznaz foot soldier. The game’s plot ends with an ominous warning about a world war about to begin showing a satellite image of the Russian navy sailing across the Pacific as the great powers erupt into global war. The game received universal acclaim from critics, with the gameplay and story receiving particular praise and became the highest grossing game bought in Russia.
Russia’s rise in the world also influenced Hollywood. The movie The Patriot released in 2007 depicts the life of a normal American farmer in Alaska, conducting a guerilla war against a Russian occupied American West Coast, with Alaska in particular being directly incorporated with the Czardom of Russia. The movie was slightly controversial as the movie depicted the Russian monarchy as an absolute one, which was rejected by Tsar Mikhail II and was called a disgrace in depicting Russian administration.
A scene from the Patriot.
- Excerpts from ‘Popular Culture in Russia’ written by Mikhail Godonovsky in 2009.
Logo of the Russian Premier League.
Football is the most popular sport in Russia, beating Hockey by a good margin. The first level of the Russian football league system is the 16 club Premier League. Below it is the National Football League, which contains 20 clubs. Below that is the Russian Professional Football League consisting of 78 Football clubs all throughout the nation. Below that is the Russian Amateur Football League which consists of uncountable football clubs divided into regional leagues. The list of clubs within the Russian Premier League are:-
The champions of the Russian Premier League historically along with top scorers are:-
1995: Dynamo Moscow (Oleg Veretennikov – 25 goals)
1996: Rotor Volgograd (Aleksandr Maslov – 23 goals)
1997: Dynamo Moscow (Oleg Veretennikov – 22 goals)
1998: Minsk Unicorns (Oleg Veretennikov – 22 goals)
1999: Dynamo Moscow (Georgi Demetradze – 21 goals)
2000: Royal St. Petersburg (Dmitri Loskov – 18 goals)
2001: Akhmat Grozny (Dmitry Vyazmikin -18 goals)
2002: Dynamo Moscow (Rolan Gusev – 16 goals)
2003: Vladivostok Lions (Dmitry Loskov – 19 goals)
2004: Rotor Volgograd (Aleksander Kerzhakiv – 21 goals)
2005: Rubin Kazan (Dmitri Kirichenko -18 goals)
2006: Akhmat Grozny (Roman Pavlyuchenko – 17 goals)
2007: Royal St. Petersburg (Roman Adamov – 23 goals)
2008: Rubin Kazan (Vagner Love – 20 goals)
Ice Hockey is also a big game in Russia, with the Gregarin Cup being hotly contested by many in the country. The Youth Hockey League and the Kontinental Hockey League are all smaller Hockey leagues in Russia as well.
Tennis, Chess, Motorsport Martial Arts, rugby and basketball are also minor sports that enjoy success in Russia. In recent times, cricket has also come into the limelight with the Russian National Cricket Team reaching division 3 in 2006, as per the rules of the ICC.
Logo of the Russian Cricket Team.
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Being one of the first few countries in the world to be interested in telecommunications, animation and moving pictures in general, which stemmed from the Russian Empire itself, the Czardom of Russia or back then the Russian Federation did not disappoint on the fact that it had a lot going for itself in terms of popular culture.
Timur Bekmambetov is a famous Russian director of Kazakh origin.
In late 1996, the first caretaker movie to be released in Russia under President Grigory Yavlinsky would be the movie Chechnya which depicted the Chechen Wars in all their brutality. The movie followed the life of an ethnic Chechen, who was indifferent to the idea of an independent Chechnya, good if it was, good if it wasn’t, both. However as the war drags on, and both sides commit brutal reprisals against the other, the main character is caught between a rock and hard place, which causes him to turn to the FSB to protect his wife, an ethnic Russian and their child, a half Russian and half Chechen. The movie is not well-known outside of Russia or the Eurasian Union, however for the people of Russia itself, the movie is a master piece and shows how hard life was during the hard times after the fall of the Soviet Union.
As the Russian economy continued to recover from the fall of the Soviet Union, the status of Russian telecommunications and all that it entailed continued to grow better as well. The famed soviet animation studio Soyuzmultfilm returned from being a leased animation studio to a full-fledged animation studio under partial governmental ownership, though around 2/3 were owned by private investors. Soyuzmultfilm remains Russia’s largest and perhaps wealthiest animation studios and is the home to multiple famous animated movies and television series. It also produces a side channel in the Russian cable known as Detskiy Kanal which was a children’s cartoon channel which had multiple cartoon shows running for children. In the separate republics of Russia back then, the series were dubbed in their indigenous recognized minority languages as well.
As one of the major drivers for the stabilization of the Russian economy became electronics and their gadgets, television and telecommunications came into the limelight soon enough as well. Russian cinema as a result also got a boost and investment into the cinema industry was also encouraged by the government. The shares of the cinema industry grew by around 21% in the entire year of 1996 alone.
In 1997, the blockbuster film that became famous throughout the Cyrillic reading world, The Thief was released by Russian studios directed by Pavel Chukhray. The movie depicts the life of a young boy, Dmitry, just aged 7 in the city of Leningrad when Operation Barbarossa hits the Soviet Union. His father is conscripted in the Red Army, and his mother dies in a bombing raid on the city, leaving Dmitry parentless and an orphan. Describing the journey of Dmitry from 1941 to 1945, where he lives throughout the Siege of Leningrad, and through war miseries, the movie ends with him reuniting with his father in 1945, becoming one of the few Soviet troops who survived the 1941-45. The movie is known for using less amount of dialogue, instead capturing the dread of the moments through sound and animation effects. The movie was praised for being an extremely accurate description of war.
A poster of The Thief.
That same year a new movie was released by another Russian studio, called The NKVD which highlighted the life of a low NKVD soldier during the height of the Red Terror. The story progresses as the soldier becomes increasingly unhinged showing the despairs that an intelligence soldier had to cope with during their darkest times. Both movies would be brought forward in the Cannes movie festival later on, and receive a lot of praise.
Russian films in the 1990s started to revolve around the Soviet Union, with many highlighting how a normal day in the USSR was back in its early days. Two Television serials however would stand out. The first was Kaluk. This television serial follows the life of a son of a Kaluk as he see’s all that he once owned and earned, seized from him, living in abject poverty and trying to get by in the earliest days of Soviet Russia. The second was Chernobyl. Chernobyl is a popular television series in Russia started in mid-1997 which goes in detail about the Chernobyl explosion. It was shot and produced in conjunction with several Ukrainian and Belarusian studios.
Russian cinema also has a name for itself in the Horror genre. Russian horror films are very famous in Slavic countries, and the Central Asian countries, as well as Mongolia, South Korea, Japan and China. For example, the movie The Son and the Mother released in 1998 revolves around a son and a mother living in Siberia in 1910 with the mother’s husband having been a killed soldier during the Russo-Japanese War. The story revolves around an abandoned church nearby with something haunting them. The film is regarded as the first of a series of successful horror films produced in Russia. This movie would also go to inspire one of the most iconic games of the late 1990s, Silent Hill produced by Konami.
1. A poster of the Mother and Son 2. logo of Silent Hill.
Meanwhile Russian animation also grew once again, and the animated movie The Old Man and the Sea released in 1999 was also a praise worthy film that became the highest grossing animated movie made by Russia in the 1990s. The plot follows the book of the same name written in 1952.
Russian videogame industry however was in its infancy. The USSR did have a small videogame industry, however most of them were cheap knockoffs of western arcades. As such, the Russian videogame industry had to be built from ground upwards. In 1997, the first Russian videogame firm, Kompaniya Animatsionykh igr or simply KAI in short was established in Kazan, Russia, and would soon become the videogame giant of Russia, with it’s first video game, Ivan Pirat or Ivan the Pirate follows a 1990s rpg game format which details the life of Ivan, one of the rare few Russian pirates which were active in the Caribbean sea. It would not be successful outside of Russia, however it would remain successful within Russia itself.
However the most iconic Russian television serial of all would be introduced in 2001, called The Romanovs. The Romanovs is a Russian television channel, also dubbed in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Chechen, Kazakh, and English, which depicts the lives of the Russian monarchs and nobility ever since the reign of Tsar Mikhail I of Russia. It depicts their ups and downs, their high points and low points as well as their strengths and weaknesses to great effects. The show is also credited with the fact that it introduced many young Russians to the former Russian monarchy, and it may have influenced some of the swing voters during the 2004 Russian monarchical referendum.
a scene from the Romanovs TV series.
Russians also became big fans of British television. Radio 1 and Channel 4 become large sectors of Russian television lives by the end of the century.
In the 2000s, Russian cinema boomed. It became one of Russia’s largest industrial sectors. Television series also became a large part of Russian culture, and the current top 5 Russian tv shows are:-
Detektiv. The show follows a young Russian detective as a part of the Okhrana during the 1905 Russian Revolution and beyond.
Lyubit. A romantic soap opera following the love lives of a rich Russian nobleman in the Victorian Era who falls in love with a serf woman.
Shpion. A tv series following the life of a KGB agent living in America during the height of the cold war.
Zhizn. A tv series following the life of a simple farmer during the Cold war as he experiences the changes of the Soviet Union, living from 1901 to 1987.
Svyashcenik. The series follows the life of an Orthodox priest from 1922 to 1967, following his struggle to keep his faith and keep the faith of others too in an openly atheist nation.
As the videogaming sector in Russia grew as well, several new games were influenced by Russian gaming. A medium scale Russian video game studio, Infinity Gaming was also bought by Activision, a videogaming giant from the USA, creating an Activision branch in Russia. The Activision Russian Branch would also create several games called Chest’ I zhertva which are Russian FPS games set in World War 1, World War 2 and several cold war conflicts. However the biggest change in Russian gaming would be in 2007, when the world famous game series Call of Duty published their new gaming series, called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The story takes place in the year 2008, where a radical leader has executed the leader of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, and a neo-soviet force in Russia sparks an insurgency alongside nationalistic insurgencies on part from Chechnya and Ingushetia. The conflicts are seen from the perspective of a US Marine Force Recon sergeant, a British SAS operator, and a Russian Spetznaz foot soldier. The game’s plot ends with an ominous warning about a world war about to begin showing a satellite image of the Russian navy sailing across the Pacific as the great powers erupt into global war. The game received universal acclaim from critics, with the gameplay and story receiving particular praise and became the highest grossing game bought in Russia.
Russia’s rise in the world also influenced Hollywood. The movie The Patriot released in 2007 depicts the life of a normal American farmer in Alaska, conducting a guerilla war against a Russian occupied American West Coast, with Alaska in particular being directly incorporated with the Czardom of Russia. The movie was slightly controversial as the movie depicted the Russian monarchy as an absolute one, which was rejected by Tsar Mikhail II and was called a disgrace in depicting Russian administration.
A scene from the Patriot.
- Excerpts from ‘Popular Culture in Russia’ written by Mikhail Godonovsky in 2009.
Logo of the Russian Premier League.
Football is the most popular sport in Russia, beating Hockey by a good margin. The first level of the Russian football league system is the 16 club Premier League. Below it is the National Football League, which contains 20 clubs. Below that is the Russian Professional Football League consisting of 78 Football clubs all throughout the nation. Below that is the Russian Amateur Football League which consists of uncountable football clubs divided into regional leagues. The list of clubs within the Russian Premier League are:-
1. Akhmat Grozny.
2. Tula Arsenals.
3. Dynamo Moscow
4. Krasnodar Arrows.
5. Royal St. Petersburg
6. Vladivostok Lions
7. Rotor Volgograd
8. Rubin Kazan.
9. Sochi Marines
10. FC Yekaterinburg
11. Sevastopol Cossacks.
12. Minsk Unicorns.
13. Omsk Frost Legions.
14. Tambov
15. Ufa
16. Rostov Tigers.
The champions of the Russian Premier League historically along with top scorers are:-
1995: Dynamo Moscow (Oleg Veretennikov – 25 goals)
1996: Rotor Volgograd (Aleksandr Maslov – 23 goals)
1997: Dynamo Moscow (Oleg Veretennikov – 22 goals)
1998: Minsk Unicorns (Oleg Veretennikov – 22 goals)
1999: Dynamo Moscow (Georgi Demetradze – 21 goals)
2000: Royal St. Petersburg (Dmitri Loskov – 18 goals)
2001: Akhmat Grozny (Dmitry Vyazmikin -18 goals)
2002: Dynamo Moscow (Rolan Gusev – 16 goals)
2003: Vladivostok Lions (Dmitry Loskov – 19 goals)
2004: Rotor Volgograd (Aleksander Kerzhakiv – 21 goals)
2005: Rubin Kazan (Dmitri Kirichenko -18 goals)
2006: Akhmat Grozny (Roman Pavlyuchenko – 17 goals)
2007: Royal St. Petersburg (Roman Adamov – 23 goals)
2008: Rubin Kazan (Vagner Love – 20 goals)
Ice Hockey is also a big game in Russia, with the Gregarin Cup being hotly contested by many in the country. The Youth Hockey League and the Kontinental Hockey League are all smaller Hockey leagues in Russia as well.
Tennis, Chess, Motorsport Martial Arts, rugby and basketball are also minor sports that enjoy success in Russia. In recent times, cricket has also come into the limelight with the Russian National Cricket Team reaching division 3 in 2006, as per the rules of the ICC.
Logo of the Russian Cricket Team.
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Really liked the Call of Duty part. Just one minor nitpick, wouldn't it be a global war instead of civil war?
The popular culture in TTL Russia is quite great. It is often rare that people covers the pop culture of their TLs. I also really like the Call of Duty part on personal level.