Alaska (2018-present) (21st Century Crisis)

The Autonomous Provisional Republic of Alaska (Russian: Автономная Временная Республика Аляска, Avtonomnaya Vremennaya Respublika Alyaska) is a constituent republic of the United Russian Republics.

Bordering Canada to the east, Russian settlers began colonizing parts of Alaska in the late 1800s, colloquially became known as Russian America. The tsar of Russia began to encourage migrations of more Russians into Alaska, where many of them settled further south into the Cascadia region.

When Vladimir Lenin and the communists seized control of Moscow, Alaska became a haven of White refugees, in knowing that persecution against Russian Orthodox was coming. Armed settlers fled to Alaska en masse, led by President Alexander Kerensky of the Russian Provisional Republic, using old Imperial Navy ships.

The Russian Republic was supported by the Western powers, who helped build Russian Orthodox cathedrals in Alaska. When the Moscow Patriarchate declared it loyalty to the Bolsheviks, the Patriarchate of New Archangel was formed.

This, thanks to its history, Alaska is an abode of White Russian