Quote Originally Posted by PavelUSA
Almost no one outside Russia has Russian characters drawn on a keyboard (many of us use Internet at work so we can not have Russian letters on our keyboards) - but it's still easy enough to write in Russian, for example, you can use so called phonetic layout, when you get Russian 'A' by pressing 'A', get Russian 'K' by pressing 'K', etc.
If one is using Mac OS X it's not hard to Cyrillicize the keyboard. You just need to load a keyboard layout - do a google search. Especially, go to this site at http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page ... id=ukelele for keyboard layout links. I use Cyrillique-AZERTY keyboard layout.