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-->|header8=<center>Diplomacy</center>|label9=Sphere|data9={{German Sphere}}|label10=Foreign Alignment|data10={{Autonomous Reichskommissariat}}|header11=<center>Economy</center>|label12=GDP|data12=|label13=Credit Rating|data13=[[File:CreditRating_GER_5.png|30px]] Fair|label14=Market Type|data14={{Gelenkte Wirtschaft}}|abovestyle={{{Abovestyle|background-color:#4DB6B0;color:#061016;}}}|headerstyle={{{Headerstyle|background-color:#4DB6B0;color:#061016;}}}}}Reichskommissariat Moskowien ('''RKM'''; Russian: Рейхскомиссариат Московия, romanized: ''Reykhskomissariat Moskoviya'', literally 'Reich Commissariat of Muscovy') is a colony in Eastern Europe, part of the Greater Germanic Reich, encompassing most of the former European parts of the former Russian SFSR. It is the largest European Reichskommissariat and is operated by Reichskommissar [[Siegfried Kasche]], the former German Ambassador to Croatia.

The Colony was established in 1941-1942 after the German occupation of Western Russia, conquered from the Soviet Union in [[World War II|WWII]], led to the creation of the Moskowien region, which was the least Germanized part of the entire German colonial sphere and one of the most unprofitable, with mismanagement and powerful collaborator groups.

Before Operation Barbarossa, the lands that make up Moskowien was part of the Russian SFSR inside of the Soviet Union, inhabited by mostly Russians. It was a key subject of Nazi planning for the post-war expansion of the German state under the ''Lebensraum'' or Living Space under Generalplan Ost. The Nazi extermination policy in Western Russia, ended the lives of millions of people in The Holocaust and other mass killings under SS ''Einsatzgruppen'' units.

Nazi Germany aimed to permanently destroy Russia and the Russian people, regardless of their political affiliation. Adolf Hitler's Lebensraum policy, as outlined in Mein Kampf, involved disposing of Russian inhabitants and expeling them beyond the Ural mountains or through various means. The Generalplan Ost encouraged German colonial settlement in former Slavic regions. As the campaign against the Soviet Union advanced, the occupied territories were gradually transferred from military to civilian administration. Hitler's final decision involved dividing the new eastern territories into four Reichskommissariats to destroy Russia as a geographical entity. These institutions were under the nominal supervision of Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg, head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. The leaders of these provinces were direct subordinates of Hitler and answerable only to him. The conquered territories initially became a Reichskommissariat Russland, later changed to Moskowien (Muscovy) or Moskau (Moscow). These eastern districts were considered the most sensitive to administer, and were managed directly by the German government in Berlin.