Russian roots in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
The USSR was not Mordor but there is something Russian (and Slavic) about Middle-earth. Mordor, the realm of Sauron, the main villain
Chechnya And Ingushetiya Yaroslavskaya Oblast United Kingdom Ivan Medvedko John Wick Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
Source: russiaherald.com