The nice thing about Russian, though, is that the language is remarkably uniform throughout the country. You really only have three phenomena which can really be easily noticed - okanie, akanie and hekanie. The first is the tendency of people in the Volga basin and parts of Siberia to pronounce unstressed "o" as a stressed "o" , while akanie is the tendency to pronounce short "o" like a long "a" . Hekanie is the tendency of people in South Russia to pronounce the "g" as "h" (like in the Ukraine). Of course, a Moscow accent is characterized by akanie and a tendency to drag out certain syllables...
My mother grew up in the North, near Kazan, so she "okaet". She says that wen she arrived in Odessa her friends kept asking her "Tell something, please! You speak so well!"
I would think there's nothing wrong with French spoken in an Italian accent... 
Hope the Frenchs agree on that...
I've heard that. Is it true what Umberto Eco says about Piedmontese accents, that their statements sound like questions and their questions like insults?
I think it's more of a joke. Hi comes from Alessandria, a city the rest of Piedmont often tend to make fun of.
I'll improve on my Italian through Russian, then! 
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