History UsefulNotes / TheNewRussia

* In FightingGames, the stages that represent Russia will be typically grim, dreary places -- blast furnaces, factories, power-stations and bleak rail-yards are popular home-stages for Russian fighters.

* Music/RobbieWilliams' "Party Like a Russian" pokes fun at New Russian billionaire oligarchs. It also gives a sonic ShoutOut to Sergei Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights".

* Music/RobbieWilliams' "Party Like a Russian" pokes fun at New Russian billionaire oligarchs. It also gives a sonic ShoutOut to SergeiProkofiev's "Dance of the Knights".

* In the 2010 version of {{Series/Nikita}}, it turns out that [[spoiler: Alex]] has a connection to this. She was the daughter of an extremely powerful Russian oligarch that was assassinated by a Division strike team making her a latter day Anastasia. Much of season two is about the conflict with a [[TheMafiya Russian PMC]] and Division.
* The {{Series/Limitless}} TV series has a whole episode taking place here and throws in as many tropes as possible: oligarchs, corrupt officials, hardbass, etc.

* Vladimir Sorokin's dilogy of dystopias ''The Day of Oprichnik'' and ''The Sugar Kremlin'' describes future Russia as a mix of New Russia and pre-{{Peter The Great}} Muscovite UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia, with a large dose of CyberPunk and PostModernism.

* ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX

There are other commentators meanwhile who tend to think that Russia with its brand new "sovereign democracy" is, despite it all, in a position to remain a global power - and WildCard - for the immediate future. They argue that the current state of affairs under Putin is a response to what some Russians claim as the failure of Western liberal reforms in TheNineties. And if its recent activities in the Middle East are any indication, especially Syria, Georgia and Ukraine, it still seems premature to write the country off just yet. The events of the Crimean crisis of 2014 also lend credibility to the theory that the country is asserting its independence from the West and strengthening its militarist regime. But, the Putinist government still remains crypto-Tsarist/Soviet, strengthening religious fervor and encouraging every reactionary idea as well as reviving Soviet-era policies. And some of the ideologues rising up to power in the Russian-backed parts of Donbas in Ukraine, [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] by the international norms, openly claim succession to the [[UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRifles White Guard]] ideologies of the Russian Civil War, or the [[RedsWithRockets Red Army]] of WWII fighting the new Ukrainian government. Even their breakaway state in eastern Ukraine was called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novorossiya_%28confederation%29 Novorossiya]] for a few months, which literally translates to ''New Russia'' - an old Imperial term for the region revived by the invaders.

** ''Me Too'' is a re-telling of Tarkovsky's ''{{Film/Stalker}}''... in The New Russia!

* In ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Call Of Duty 4]]'', Sergeant Kamarov says, "Welcome to the new Russia, Captain Price." Russia is portrayed a decaying state locked in a civil war between the federal government and the ultranationalists.
** Averted in the next game, when they invade America. After barely a few years, nation that was just gripped in civil war is suddenly a global superpower again. Where they get the manpower and money to simultaneously invade ''every single major Western power'' is anyone's guess...
*** At least ''Modern Warfare 3'' indicated SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome where it turns out the invasion was just a powerful punch, with Russia being unable to fight any longer after just a few weeks with its leaders seeking peace.

** ''Film/{{Brother}}'', his most famous movie is a parly crime drama, partly action movie about gun-toting AntiHero living and fighting in crime-ridden CityNoir of Saint-Petersburg.

One particular subtrope associated with The New Russia is the "Russian Nineties", which is {{the Theme Park Version}} of the Yeltsinist Russian Federation. Everyone except [[TheMafiya the gangsters]] and the oligarchs is starving poor, crime is rampant, the rubles have RidiculousExchangeRates, every city is a ViceCity, and the whole place is GrimDark. Basically, the [[TheGreatDepression Great Depression]]-era USA meets {{Ruritania}}. When {{speculative fiction}} extrapolated from this trend, it usually added {{Cyberpunk}} into the mix to create an UpToEleven picture of a failed state, where masses do starve in droves, and the whole place is overtly run as a confederacy of mob families. The Nineties ended with Putin coming to power and oil money coming to town, but they surely can make a [[NotQuiteDead comeback]] because of the worldwide financial crisis, which is what everyone was expecting in 2009-early 2010. The economy (the Russian one at least) has since recovered, but lots of previous problems persist regardless.

-->-- '''Russian joke'''

There are other commentators meanwhile who tend to think that Russia with its brand new "sovereign democracy" is, despite it all, in a position to remain a global power - and WildCard - for the immediate future. They argue that the current state of affairs under Putin is a response to what some Russians claim as the failure of Western liberal reforms in TheNineties. And if its recent activities in the Middle East are any indication, especially Syria, Georgia and Ukraine, it still seems premature to write the country off just yet. The events of the Crimean crisis of 2014 also lend credibility to the theory that the country is asserting its independence from the West and strengthening its militarist regime. But, the Putinist government still remains crypto-Tsarist/Soviet, strengthening religious fervor and encouraging every reactionary idea as well as reviving Soviet-era policies. And some of the ideologues rising up to power in the Russian-backed parts of Donbas in Ukraine, [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] by the international norms, openly claim succession to the [[UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRifles White Guard]] ideologies of the Russian Civil War, or the [[RedsWithRockets Red Army]] of WWII fighting the new Ukrainian government. Even their breakaway state in eastern Ukraine was called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novorossiya_%28confederation%29 Novorossiya]] for a few months, which literally translates to ''New Russia'' - an old Imperial term for the region revived by the invaders.

There are other commentators meanwhile who tend to think that Russia with its brand new "sovereign democracy" is, despite it all, in a position to remain a global power - and WildCard - for the immediate future. They argue that the current state of affairs under Putin is a response to what some Russians claim as the failure of Western liberal reforms in TheNineties. And if its recent activities in the Middle East are any indication, especially Syria, Georgia and Ukraine, it still seems premature to write the country off just yet. The events of the Crimean crisis of 2014 also lend credibility to the theory that the country is asserting its independence from the West and strengthening its militarist regime. But, the Putinist government still remains crypto-Tsarist/Soviet, strengthening religious fervor and encouraging every reactionary idea as well as reviving Soviet-era policies. And some of the ideologues rising up to power in the Russian-backed Eastern Ukraine, [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] by the international norms, openly claim succession to the [[UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRifles White Guard]] ideologies of the Russian Civil War, or the [[RedsWithRockets Red Army]] of WWII fighting [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-Nazis]] that almost run the new Ukrainian government. Even their breakaway state in eastern Ukraine is called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novorossiya_%28confederation%29 Novorossiya]] which literally translates to ''New Russia'' - an old Imperial term for the region revived by the rebels.

* As does ''Anime/DarkerThenBlack'' season 2.

One particular subtrope associated with The New Russia is the "Russian Nineties", which is {{the Theme Park Version}} of the Yeltsinist Russian Federation. Everyone except [[TheMafiya the gangsters]] and the oligarchs is starving poor, crime is rampant, the rubles have RidiculousExchangeRates, and the whole place is GrimDark. Basically, the [[TheGreatDepression Great Depression]]-era USA meets {{Ruritania}}. When {{speculative fiction}} extrapolated from this trend, it usually added {{Cyberpunk}} into the mix to create an UpToEleven picture of a failed state, where masses do starve in droves, and the whole place is overtly run as a confederacy of mob families. The Nineties ended with Putin coming to power and oil money coming to town, but they surely can make a [[NotQuiteDead comeback]] because of the worldwide financial crisis, which is what everyone was expecting in 2009-early 2010. The economy (the Russian one at least) has since recovered, but lots of previous problems persist regardless.

While the UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRustingRockets retain the red star on their aircraft[[note]]It's since added blue and white stripes on the outside[[/note]], the proposed new formal uniform is somewhat Tsarist looking, the old Slavic-colours flag is back and UsefulNotes/RedOctober is replaced with a somewhat controversial "National Unity Day" which takes place three days earlier.

*** At least ''Modern Warfare 3'' indicated RealityEnsues where it turns out the invasion was just a powerful punch, with Russia being unable to fight any longer after just a few weeks with its leaders seeking peace.

** ''Voina''(War) is a movie about Chechen War.

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