A Shadow in the Blue Sky

In timeline, in Russia, after the fall of communism, established a policy of "Second Japan".

The POD in 1983: start out with that Irina Khakamada visited and studied in Japan in 1983, then returned 1984 and then by 1991, the USSR gets turned into the Russian Federation, and from there she becomes President, and then turns Russia into Second Japan. The same thing can be done with Sergei Sviatchenko and Ukraine, just for them would be Second Finland.

By 2012, Russia and Ukraine becomes very similar to Japan and Finland; economy, industry, culture and other.