Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, also known as the U.S.S.R., was a Communist state that existed mostly in the area now occupied by Russia. Bratsk was a city in the Soviet Union. Chechnya was a part of the Soviet Union, and became an independent state after its collapse.

Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union for a period of time.

Before Day 1
Viktor Grigorin was born in the Soviet Union, as was Victor Drazen who received covert actions and anti-espionage training from the Soviet Union's KGB.

In the harsh economic times after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Bierko made a fortune.

Day 2
Eric Rayburn suggested that in a worst case scenario, the nuclear threat of that day could derive from terrorists having control of a stolen Soviet nuclear warhead which a properly configured trigger that was detonated 500 feet above the city, which could result in 100 square miles being instantly irradiated, as well as around two and a half million casualties and global repercussions which could last up to five years.

Before Day 3
Three weeks prior to the events of Day 3, twelve gas-dispersal devices, formerly part of the Soviet Union's biowarfare arsenal, were stolen from an armory in the Ukraine.

Day 6
Phillip Bauer was forced by Dmitri Gredenko] to give him five Suitcase nuclear devices for his complicity in the assassination of David Palmer. Phillip believed that Gredenko was merely preserving some of the old Soviet Cold War arsenal, for the day when the Soviet Union would be reestablished. He claimed that he had no idea Gredenko would sell them to Abu Fayed for use against Americans.

Before Day 8
Farhad Hassan planned to obtain nuclear weapons from a decommissioned Soviet stockpile.

Day 8
After 10:30pm, Chloe O'Brian informed Dana Walsh that the HAZMAT team at Fort Hamilton had confirmed that the traces of uranium in Davros' body was from Soviet origin.

Soviet Army
Several individuals have been revealed as holding positions in the Soviet Army before Day 1:
 * Dmitri Gredenko; former general.
 * Anatoly Markov; former general.
 * Oleg Malenov; secret ops.
 * Sergei Bazhaev (also served twelve years in a Soviet labour camp).
 * Many members of the Red Square organization were former Soviet military men.
 * Anton Beresch; served for seven years.