1.   The Russian countryside, he observed, was dangerously volatile.

2.   At one point, Joe, ever feckless, decides to take a train into the Russian countryside.

3.   But even his early films never hid his romantic fascination with prerevolutionary Russia or his love affair with dreamy, sun-dappled afternoons in the Russian countryside.

4.   He made his own marionettes out of wood he cut himself in the Russian countryside.

5.   Here, some of them spend their evenings painting scenes of the Russian countryside in winter, complete with sleighs and silhouettes of church steeples.

6.   It was winter, they were in the Russian countryside, and there was no vodka in the house.

7.   Yavlinsky is most popular in the cities and among more educated voters, but he has only spotty support across the Russian countryside.

8.   His office also is full of dreamy paintings of the Russian countryside, and a Russian flag stands in the corner.

9.   The higher taxes will hurt Moscow consumers, who have become used to a certain degree of quality, compared with the rather unappetising fare of the Russian countryside.