The Empire has expanded to include all the ex-Soviet Central Asian Republics, the Caucasus, Belarus and more recently, Ukraine. Border adjustments were made in the middle east with the Indian expansion into former Afghan, Pakistani and Iranian territory. Sakhalin, Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands have been controlled by Japan since the end of the war, and the United Nations has kept Russia out of Kaliningrad, forming a political deadlock between Russia and the Europeans and Japanese. Along with Canada, Alaska was partitioned with most of Alaska going to the Russians and the Juneau region going to the Canadians. The Holy Russian Army has been training since the end of the Zombie War, and after the Ukrainian War, they are itching for more.