Editing March First Movement (section)

=== Russia ===
At the time of the movement, Russia was engaged in the [[Russian Civil War]] and [[Russian Revolution]]. The foreign ministry of the anti-Bolshevik [[Russian State (1918–1920)|Russian State]] consulted with Japan in March, then officially took a neutral stance on the protest.<ref name="YNA 2019 8" />

The Bolsheviks frequently expressed solidarity with the Koreans. Several South Korean and American scholars and journalists have since argued that the protesting Koreans were from across the political spectrum, and that Lenin and the Bolsheviks actively sought to link movements such as these with their cause, as they stood to benefit from doing so.<ref name="YNA 2019 8" /><ref name="EncyKorea Movement" /> After the Soviet Union assumed control over territories with significant Korean populations in the Russian Far East, it allowed and sometimes encouraged Koreans to openly express support for the Korean independence movement.<ref name="YNA 2019 8" /><ref name="EncyKorea Movement" />

Due to the civil war, overall awareness of the movement was likely low amongst the general Russian public, although it was still covered in major papers. Reporting on it was also possibly relatively delayed compared to in other countries; a 2019 study on global coverage of the protests claimed that a May 3 article in the leftist newspaper ''[[Pravda]]'' is the earliest known Russian article on the protests. The article criticized Japan's violent suppression of the protests, as well as the subsequent disinformation campaign.<ref name="YNA 2019 8" />