Malvina Fedorov was a Russian protocol officer for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) but her political career ended when she was publicly revealed to be a mutant during the Josef Stalin clone army invasion. Under duress from her superiors in Moscow, she flies the Commonwealth's skies as Krasnaya Molniya or Red Lightning, bane to criminals and the United States and Great Britain as her disdain for their governments make it difficult for superheroes from those countries to ever get along with her.