From Russia with love?

[MajorHoy]

Back in the 1980's and 1990's, during the last days of the Cold War and the transition that followed the breakup of the U.S.S.R., there were many heroes and villains with Russian/Soviet Union roots. Just to name a few, there were:

* Red Star (originally called "Starfire")
* Rocket Red Brigade
* Soyuz
* The People's Heroes
* Stalnoivolk
* Red Trinity
* Blue Trinity
* KGBeast
* NKVDemon
. . . and I'm sure there were plenty more that I haven't named.

But what about in the past five-to-ten years?
I know that Red Star has shown up recently in Red Robin, and I know the Rocket Red Brigade have been in 52 and an issue of Superman a couple of years ago.
Red Robin also had to deal with a villain named Viktor Mikalek recently, who had a base in Moscow.

But what other Russian-connected characters have appeared in any DC Comics recently, and were those stories set in the present or back during the days of the Cold War?

(Also, there was a woman named Tundra from Russia who was named as a potential new member for the Global Guardians back in a 1994 issue of Justice League International Quarterly (issue No. 17), but did she ever show up in anything else?)

[the4thpip]

The new Rocket Red in Justice League: Generation Lost was cute.

[MajorHoy]

The new Rocket Red in Justice League: Generation Lost was cute.

Was she the same one (Ivana) who showed up for a page in Superman a couple of years ago?

[Jody Garland]

He wasn't a female, it was a guy named Gavil. I think Pip was using cute to refer to his butchering of English phrases. IT seemed funny to me, though I haven't read GL yet.

[the4thpip]

He wasn't a female, it was a guy named Gavil. I think Pip was using cute to refer to his butchering of English phrases. IT seemed funny to me, though I haven't read GL yet.

Oh, he was also cute in a "sensitive commie brick housewho likes Oprah Winfrey" way. Which is why Fire fell for him, hard.

[Lonewolf36]

Back in the 1980's and 1990's, during the last days of the Cold War and the transition that followed the breakup of the U.S.S.R., there were many heroes and villains with Russian/Soviet Union roots. Just to name a few, there were:

* Red Star (originally called "Starfire")
* Rocket Red Brigade
* Soyuz
* The People's Heroes
* Stalnoivolk
* Red Trinity
* Blue Trinity
* KGBeast
* NKVDemon
. . . and I'm sure there were plenty more that I haven't named.

But what about in the past five-to-ten years?
I know that Red Star has shown up recently in Red Robin, and I know the Rocket Red Brigade have been in 52 and an issue of Superman a couple of years ago.
Red Robin also had to deal with a villain named Viktor Mikalek recently, who had a base in Moscow.

But what other Russian-connected characters have appeared in any DC Comics recently, and were those stories set in the present or back during the days of the Cold War?

(Also, there was a woman named Tundra from Russia who was named as a potential new member for the Global Guardians back in a 1994 issue of Justice League International Quarterly (issue No. 17), but did she ever show up in anything else?)

Some others that come to mind

Pozhar - Russian version of Firestorm
Rostov - Werewolf and ally of Warlord
Rasputin - Mystic that was an ally of Firestorm
Zuggernaut - Firestorm villain
Bear - Batman ally and hero
Negative Woman of the Doom Patrol
Anya Savenlovich - Green Lantern form Kyle's New Corps
Fireball - World War II ally of the Young All-Stars
Boris of the Blackhawks
Red Shadows - Russian version of the Suicide Squad
Russia version of Checkmate

Tundra made a one panel cameo in an issue of Wonder Woman where all the female villains and heroes did battle.