Alternative Russia World History

(This concept for Alternative Russia is influenced by these pages on another wiki: and )

Slavic-Americans
There are much more Americans of Slavic descent, due to Russia colonizing the Pacific Northwest in this timeline. Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and the State of Jefferson (which is just a proposal in OTL) all have a large amount of Slavic-Americans.

Due to being light-skinned, Slavs are not discriminated against as much as Hispanics or Black people, but are still discriminated against, especially by Neo-Nazi and other white supremacist groups. ITTL, the word “honky” is a slur which refers to Slavic-American people, and is considered just as offensive as the “N-word” and similar slurs against Jews, Asians, and Hispanics. (“Cracker” still has the same meaning as it does in OTL.) Like with Asians, some definitions of “people of color” include Slavic-Americans, while others don’t.

Changes to Canada
Russian is the third official language of Canada, after English and French. Alaska is part of Canada in this timeline, and Yukon is a full province, instead of just a territory. After Nunavut was created in 1999, the remaining area of the Northwest Territories was renamed to Denendeh.

OTL British Columbia is instead called Kaskadiya, and has a strong Russian culture, rivalling the French culture in Quebec. All signs in Kaskadiya are required to be in Russian, including traffic control devices, and a Cyrillic version of the FHWA Series/Highway Gothic font was developed for this purpose.

Media (outside of Russia)
Due to the presence of a large Slavic-American and Russian-American community, more children’s shows include Slavic characters, to give these audiences characters to look up to. For example, Sesame Street has a Russian-American female muppet known as Yeva (introduced around the same time as Rosita). For an example from a show for older children, The Loud House has Irinushka Egorova, portrayed as Clyde’s love interest.

Like how Spanish networks such as Univision and Telemundo exist (both in this timeline and in OTL), there are three major Russian-language networks in TTL’s United States: Mirvidinye, Soyuz, and Telezapad. These are mainly concentrated around the Pacific Northwest.

As Canada has a Russian-speaking population, there are also Canadian Russian networks, but most are mainly available in the Russian-speaking provinces (like how French networks are mainly available in Quebec). There is the state-owned КРТ network, which uses much of the same branding as CBC and Radio-Canada, as well as two private Russian-language networks: the Tsentral network, with a legacy dating back to the same period as CTV and TVA, and the upstart Telekspo, which was started in 1995 and is heavily linked to the RFR-based ViD network.