Ivan Melkikh is a potential security minister of Komi under Sergey Taboritsky, leader of the Holy Russian Empire's air force, and leader of the post-Midnight Imperial Airborne Brigades.
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The airborne troops of the Holy Russian Empire were largely considered to be the least politicized branch of the military, and so when the Imperial Airborne Brigades secedes from the empire, Ivan Melkikh is aligned towards despotism rather than the Imperial Cult.
No longer loyal to Taboritsky's ideals, Melikikh's state is created in former Yugra and uses the local oil reserves to its advantage. His clique has access to massive fleets of helicopters, and they use these to pillage and raid local towns for profit.
In this sense, Melikikh and his clique are a perverted twist on the Free Aviators, a warlord era statelet of pilots who dedicated themselves to fighting off the Luftwaffe's terror bombings out of pure goodwill, situated in virtually the same area that Melikikh will occupy. By contrast, Melikikh and the Airborne Corps become the very raiders the Free Aviators once protected West Russia against, for no baser motive than plunder and bloodthirst.