Because most other Unices do not have ru_SU.KOI-R locale set up correctly,
you can very well live with the following (presuming it is csh):
% stty cs8 -istrip
% setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1
% setenv LESSCHARSET latin1
This is pretty much it. Most of you will work with X, so setting up fonts
will be a prerogative of this environment. Russifying dumb terminals does
not make much sense these days, so I won't bother myself with that
subject. I used to have a few programs that would do it for Wyse
terminals. If you wish, you might want to
browse in this directory.
If you have a system administrator privelegies you might want to set up
the locales correctly.