| Russian initials | 16 |
| Russian inland sea | 18 |
| Russian instrument with a triangular body | 41 |
| Russian Irving Berlin classic? | 30 |
| Russian islands | 15 |
| Russian jet | 11 |
| Russian jet fighter | 19 |
| Russian jets | 12 |
| Russian John | 12 |
| Russian Johns | 13 |
| Russian kings | 13 |
| Russian labor group | 19 |
| Russian lady's name | 23 |
| Russian lake | 12 |
| Russian language family | 23 |
| Russian launch of 1986 | 22 |
| Russian leader | 14 |
| Russian leader before 1917 | 26 |
| Russian leader in 1917 | 22 |
| Russian leader Kosygin | 22 |
| Russian leader of old | 21 |
| Russian leader of yore | 22 |
| Russian leader until 1917 | 25 |
| Russian leader's music treatise? | 36 |
| Russian leader, 1682-1725 | 25 |
| Russian leader, 1682–1725 | 32 |
| Russian leaders | 15 |
| Russian leaders before 1917 | 27 |
| Russian legislative assembly | 28 |
| Russian legislature | 19 |
| Russian length | 14 |
| Russian letters | 15 |
| Russian limousine (and backwards, a girl's nickname) | 56 |
| Russian line | 12 |
| Russian linear measure | 22 |
| Russian liquor | 14 |
| Russian literary award established in 1881 | 42 |
| Russian Literature Nobelist Ivan | 32 |
| Russian log hut | 15 |
| Russian log huts | 16 |
| Russian man's name | 22 |
| Russian marathoner? (F) | 23 |
| Russian marshal | 15 |
| Russian marten | 14 |
| Russian master of the modern short story | 40 |
| Russian measure | 15 |
| Russian measures | 16 |
| Russian medium | 14 |
| Russian metropolis | 18 |
| Russian mint product | 20 |
| Russian mobile home? | 20 |
| Russian modernizer known as "The Great" | 49 |
| Russian modernizing czar called "The Great" | 53 |
| Russian monarch | 15 |
| Russian monarch with lipstick marks on his cheek? | 49 |
| Russian monarch, once (Var.) | 28 |
| Russian monarch: Var. | 21 |
| Russian monetary unit | 21 |
| Russian money | 13 |
| Russian money unit | 18 |
| Russian mountain range | 22 |
| Russian mountains | 17 |
| Russian mush | 12 |
| Russian music critic César | 29 |
| Russian music duo that often teases that they'll kiss onstage | 65 |
| Russian mystic | 14 |
| Russian name | 12 |
| Russian name ending | 19 |
| Russian name meaning "holy" | 37 |
| Russian name one letter shorter than a Russian river | 52 |
| Russian neighbor | 16 |
| Russian news agcy. | 18 |
| Russian news agency | 19 |
| Russian news agency acronym | 27 |
| Russian news agency ITAR-___ | 28 |
| Russian news agency: ITAR-___ | 29 |
| Russian news bureau during the Cold War | 39 |
| Russian news service | 20 |
| Russian news source | 19 |
| Russian newspaper | 17 |
| Russian NHLer Kovalev | 21 |
| Russian nickname for Alexander | 30 |
| Russian no | 10 |
| Russian Nobel author (declined) | 31 |
| Russian Nobelist in Literature | 30 |
| Russian noble family | 20 |
| Russian noble house | 19 |
| Russian noble name (and an eponym for a fancy veal entrée) | 61 |
| Russian novelist | 16 |
| Russian novelist Ehrenburg | 26 |
| Russian novelist Ivan | 21 |
| Russian novelist Maksim | 23 |
| Russian novelist Maxim | 22 |
| Russian novelist's signature | 32 |
| Russian nurse | 13 |
| Russian oblast or its capital | 29 |
| Russian or Czech | 16 |
| Russian or Pole | 15 |
| Russian orbiter | 15 |
| Russian orbiter for 15 years | 28 |