Russia

Russia is a nation-state. It is the largest country on Earth; stretching from Europe across Asia.

It used to be part of the Soviet Union, and the most dominant of its fifteen republics, but the band broke up in the early 1990s...we think.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Russia shares borders with France, Ciech, Rumania, and possibly Hungary (it's hard to tell). Trans-Europe Express

Marvel The Transformers comics

A worker at the Harrison Nuclear Power Plant assumed they were under attack from the Russians, but in reality it was Decepticons. Power Play!

Nobody at the White House was able to confirm the Russians were controlling the robots that raided Harrison Nuclear Power Plant. Meanwhile, Moscow assumed the commotion was caused by the Americans testing their Star Wars arsenal. Prisoner of War!

2005 IDW continuity

An ongoing separatist movement in the breakaway Russian state of Brasnya was being manipulated by the Decepticons for their own ends, by means of artificial human "facsimiles". Escalation #3 Escalation #4 Escalation #5 Escalation #6

When multiple Transformer factions were gathered on Asian soil, Russia tried to destroy them with a nuclear strike. International Incident Part 4

Live action film series

Movies

Transformers film

Russia was one of the nations that the Pentagon believed could be responsible for hacking the U.S. security network. During the resulting military escalations, Russian naval groups began to close in on US naval operations in the Yellow Sea. Once Tom Banachek informed the Pentagon about the alien nature of the threat, US forces were pulled back. Transformers

Age of Extinction film

In the aftermath of the Battle of Chicago, many pieces of Transformer technology littered the ruins of the city. Russia began a bidding war on the black market for whatever could be found. Age of Extinction

The Last Knight film

Russia's response to Cybertron nearing Earth displeased the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Last Knight

Titan movie comics

Russia was a NEST member, with a base in the Arkhangelskaya Oblast. Bludgeon established a Decepticon command hub in the same oblast, and a battle erupted there between Autobot/NEST and Decepticon forces. Divided Loyalties

In an alternate timeline where Megatron succeeded at killing Sam, the Decepticon invasion caused Russia to buddy up with NATO and advocate nuclear strikes on Decepticon-held America. It didn't work out well... Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2

Prime cartoon

MECH used an energon signal to lure Bulkhead and Breakdown to a ghost town on the Kamchatka Peninsula and capture Breakdown. They attempted to disassemble Breakdown in an abandoned railway tunnel, but he was rescued by Bulkhead and the rest of the Autobots. Operation: Breakdown

Notes

• Escalation #3 refers to Brasnya as a "breakaway soviet state", which is corroborated by issue 4. While on first sight this may seem to imply that the Soviet Union still exists in the present-day setting of Escalation, issues 5 and 6 replace "soviet" with "Russian" and "breakaway" with "former", thereby apparently fixing a major world politics flub. Simon Furman later stated at the German C.O.N.S. convention in July 2012 that any references to "soviet" are to be considered an error and should read "Russian" instead.
• In the Cybertron episode, "Hidden", two Air Force jets are very similar in model to Thundercracker, but in a basic gray color scheme. However, the model of fighter jet is of Russian make, while the pilots are American.

External links

• Russia at Wikipedia