Post World Wars & Modern Era (Reversed World Wars)

The Russian Republic's Early Years (1970-1975)
The Russian Republic was reborn after the fall of the Communist nations and after the end of World War 3. The nation consists of the entirety of the former Communist Russia and also what used to be the Republic of Moldova (Moldova held a vote as to whether people wanted to join Russia or not and most said yes). Russia borders their traditional rival to the south The Ottoman Empire who after World War 1 owned the Caucasus region; Russia stills laid claim to the entire region. Russia prior to the Russo-Polish war had most of the troops who survived World War 3 (~3-4 million troops) and were, along with the US and British Empire, one of the world's "Big Three" militarily. Russia also laid claim to bordering regions of China.

The Russo-Polish War (1975-1983)
Russia is condemned to this day for the Russo-Polish war, in which Polish "rebels" (citizens and small militias) took to the streets to protest Russian rule over Poland. The Russian military intervened almost immediately and destroyed the small Polish protest, killing thousands. This angered the world, even making the US draw up war plans for World War 4. The Polish soon rebelled by the hundreds of thousands. Russia still kept their military in Poland, slaughtering anyone found as a "rebel". The UN intervened with a peace keeping force. Russia responded to this by holding the peace keeping force hostage. The Polish soon started occupying villages and towns outside of what was considered "General Poland". The Belorussians, Ukrainians and even some Moldovan people joined the Polish. These other people didn't demand their own independence, but they did support Poland's independence and actually wanted to bring back the Commonwealth. Russia finally surrendered on June 13th 1983, after nearly 500,000 deaths. The Polish Commonwealth is established where the old (1700's) Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was. The borders are the same as the original PLC.

Present Day
Russia is ~90% Russian in culture, with the PLC taking most other groups that used to live in Russia. Russia has 2.5 million active troops (the other 500,000 or so went to the Commonwealth).