Russia

Russia (ロシア), also known as the Russian Federation, is the largest country in the world, covering most of northern Asia and part of eastern Europe.

Background
In the early part of the 20th century, the actions of Grigori Rasputin caused a corruption in Russia's government. Following this, certain types of Magic were banned amongst Russia's Magic Side, however organizations such as Annihilatus would still use them. Currently, Russia has five main magic cabals.

During the, Russia (then part of the ) was in competition with the United States of America to develop esper powers, with both sides pouring money into the research of esper development for military use some time later during the conflict. They would later allege to have created their own esper thanks to the crystallization of all their greatest technology, the result being someone who activates his special power by fervently praying to the Virgin Mary, but the actual truth of the matter and whether or not this power isn't simply magic is unknown.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of nuclear warheads, including the Opasnosti, were leaked from Russia and fell into the hands of organizations seeking independence, who swapped the outer shells of some to bypass their security locks. Russia would later hunt down these exchanged warheads, which were officially stated to be dismantled, with the nuclear material reused for reactor fuel, though some were actually kept as reserves.

An Academy City cooperative institution was present in Russia, running the world’s largest shopping mall, but was disbanded following a failed attempt to destroy Academy City and the decapitation of its leaders.

Russia is one of the earliest of the currently increasing number of countries which have a space program. Following the set-in belief that nuclear energy makes for a clean power system, the Russian space program has been continuing research into developing a 'clean' nuclear reactor for use in space, despite an incident were they launched a satellite with running nuclear reactor into space but lost control, with the satellite falling back to Earth.

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS2: Ability Demonstration Trip
In early July of the story's first year, Misaka Mikoto was sent to a Russian Shopping Center, run by an Academy City cooperative institution, to perform a demonstration and got involved in a series of events due to a plot by the shopping mall's higher-ups to detonate a SoIntse hydrogen bomb in Academy City.

Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Stiyl
In Siberia, Stiyl Magnus kills 19 people from a magic cabal that killed young children under the belief that life was pain and only death and reincarnation gave hope.

Tree Diagram Remnant Arc
Russia was one of the countries that launched spacecraft to retrieve the remains of the destroyed Tree Diagram.

World War III Arc
Due to the machinations of Fiamma of the Right and Nikolai Tolstoy, Russia declared war on Academy City, leading to an eleven day conflict between the two factions and their allies.

The locations listed below are locations which have been featured or referenced in some form within the series.