Russia
- Dimitri Ananko – Ajaccio – 2002–03
- Georgy Bykadorov – Montpellier – 1949–50
- Igor Dobrovolski – Marseille – 1992–93
- Vagiz Khidiyatullin – Toulouse FC – 1988–90
- Aleksandr Mostovoi – Caen, Strasbourg – 1993–94, 1994–96
- Aleksandr Panov – Saint-Étienne – 2000–01
- Ruslan Pimenov – Metz – 2004–06
- Sacha Rytchkov – Lens – 1996–97
- Sergei Semak – Paris SG – 2004–05
- Alexey Smertin – Bordeaux – 2000–03
- Dmitri Sychev – Marseille – 2002–04
- Igor Yanovskiy – Paris SG – 1998-01
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Famous quotes containing the word russia:
“In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“... gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hatpin.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)