He has stumped in at least 16 Russian provinces, preaching a politics of resentment over lost Soviet greatness.

The narrator, a former prisoner of the gulag, longs to return to live in the Russian provinces.

Hang returns to the Russian province where she lives in a dormitory for textile workers.

But he has thrown politics here in this central Russian province into turmoil.

After the Revolution of 1917 many museums located in the Russian provinces were formed by this principle.

Over the next hundred years it was slowly converted into a group of normal Russian provinces.

The Georgians would like nothing better than to stay out of the fighting in the rebellious Russian province to the north.

The administration resembled a German principality, rather than a Russian province.

It can also be found in Dagestan, a Russian province.

Estonia was soon occupied, and refugees were evacuated further into the inner Russian provinces.