Question

This country houses a “people’s movement” named for a “Cyber Front” that developed African grassroots media campaigns like PARADE and GPCI. A popular protest slogan from this country expresses opposition to a species of fish, playing on the similarity between its name and a word for war. The Dossier Center reports on criminal activities surrounding this country’s elite and gossip about its leader’s secret (-5[1])(*) sons with a former (10[1])gymnast. (10[2])Two Slovenian (10[3])children (-5[1])learned (10[1]-5[1])they (10[1])were citizens (10[1])of this country (10[3])while on (10[1])a plane (10[2])as part (10[3])of a prisoner exchange (10[1]-5[1])involving (10[1])American Marine (10[1])Paul (10[1])Whelan. (10[5]-5[1])A former caterer-turned-mercenary (10[1])died (10[1])in a mysterious (10[1])plane crash (10[1])in this country (10[4]-5[1])while leading (10[1])a Wagner Group mutiny. (-5[3])For 10 (-5[1])points, name this country that annexed (10[1])Crimea (10[2])in 2014. (10[3])■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: Russia [or Russian Federation or Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossiya]
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Noah ChinVirginia Tech AVirginia Tech C63-5
Khumoyun BakhityarovBrandeis ABowdoin C6710
James WangOttawa AbsolomabsolomabsolomMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii6810
Albert NyangLSE ASouthampton6810
Marcus Forbes-GreenToronto Disband the Club 2k24Waterloo Basic7010
Benjamin ChapmanToronto AWaterloo Cloze7010
Davis JohnsonPurdue BSIUE7010
Matthew AndersenUF CValencia71-5
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BBerkeley A72-5
Michal GerasimiukStanfordBerkeley Past7210
Nitin RaoHarvardMIT7310
Akshay SeetharamClaremontAnderson et al.7510
Issac MeredithTufts AClark Wilson7810
Pranav SrambikkalLambertMississippi State7810
Will AlstonSGV VenturesU[C]SD7810
Cormac BeirneLSE BImperial B8010
Biniam AlaroUF AUCF B8210
Kevin WangGeorgia Tech AInnovation Academy B8210
Aneesh ShotriyaPurdue ANotre Dame8410
Josh HowarthWarwick CBristol8410
Antoni KluzowskiWarwick BCambridge A8410
Michael DuWaterloo AspidistraToronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha8810
Louis HarneyGeorgia Tech CJohns Creek88-5
Thomas DellaertALCUJason et al.8910
Skand ParvatikarASU->Stanford->ASU pipelineshe limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique9110
Ali HamzehToyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titansbingy academy9210
Dylan TanouyeTufts BAmherst93-5
Ben FleishmanBUYale9310
Benny ShtutmanSouth CarolinaNorth Carolina A9310
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Michael AgadisPittRIT9310
Liam StarnesChicago AIllinois Orange9310
Mike CheyneOld and YoungPaddington in Peru (2024)9610
Aalok BhattacharyaBoston College AClark House9710
Patrick TorreMarylandPenn State10010
Alexander NicholsUCF AFlorida Tech10210
Evan LuccaBowdoin ABoston College B105-5
Michael SunBrandeis BBowdoin B10510
Zachary AdolphNorth Carolina BVirginia Tech B10510
Brody SadlerThe cult of SGAIn the Mood for Buzz10510
Ishan JoshiToronto Metropolitan AMcGill A10510
Kevin LeCarleton AToronto B10710
Neal JoshiWashUTruman111-5
William HoustonChicago BIllinois Blue111-5
Lucas JohnsWarwick ACambridge B111-5
Thomas ThatcherTrumanMissouri113-5
Addison WigginsUSFUF B11910
Zachary BornsteinVirginia Tech CVirginia Tech A12010
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeMissouri12010
Swapnil GargBerkeley ABerkeley B12210
Michael ZhouGeorgia Tech BGeorgia Tech D12210
Andrew WangIllinois BlueChicago B12210
Fahian JoyAmherstTufts B12310
Shining SunBoston College BBowdoin A12310
Fred GarveyTrumanWashU12310
Clete ReinbergerValenciaUF C12310
Edward KimJohns CreekGeorgia Tech C12310
Shiv SeshanCambridge BWarwick A12310
Braden BoothMissouriTruman14310