short summary:
Russia:
Preparations:
remove power plants 6 and 14 - they are not used.
Start the game with only power plants 3,4,5 (upper row) and 7,8,9 (lower row) in the market.
Sort out 10,11 and 13 and shuffle the remaining cards. Shuffle 10 and 11 with the top 3 cards of the stack, than put 13 on top.
Ressource cost: coal 3, oil 1, uran 6, no trash.
Phase 2:
As soon as the first player passes, the power plant in the market with the smallest number is removed.
Phase 4:
Power plants are not removed, if their number is smaller than the number of connected cities of any player.
Phase 5:
Use special ressource supply table (see link).
Game level 3:
According to the mechanism of the basic rules, you'll be playing only with 4 power plants in the market.
Japan/日本
Preparations:
ressource cost: coal 2, oil 4, trash 8, uran 16
Phase 4:
Each player may build 2 networks. On turn 1, every player may only connect a maximum of 2 cities, who do not need to be connected to each other (=2 networks). Each network must be started in one of the following cities: Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Fukuoka, Sapporo. All of these cities have an additional connection point (10 electro).
Some smaller cities only have a total of 2 connection points.
Phase 5:
Use special ressource supply table (see link).