Are Siberia and Central Asia considered Russian colonies?

Yes, in Asia, Tsarist Russia accelerated its colonization and conquest of the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East from the 1860s, and successively occupied the Great Yuz, Middle Yuz, and Xiao Yuz of the Kazakh Khanate. , as well as the Khiva Khanate, Bukhara Khanate, and Kokand Khanate, and penetrated into China's Xinjiang, Outer Mongolia, and Manchuria regions.

By 1876, Russia had occupied 17 million square kilometers of land.

And after the October Revolution, the Soviet Union turned these places into local areas for management, so naturally they could not be called colonies.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Central Asian countries became independent, and Siberia became an inalienable territory of the Russian Federation.