It's easy, under XP's Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages > Details. That opens up the Text Services and Input Languages.
No, I don't speak Russian YET, but I am learning. Once you get the Алфавит (alphabet) figured out you're basically learning a languages with grammatical complexity about as hard as German and vocabulary that's mostly on its own.
I know about the cheesy Russian pop! It sometimes sounds like 80s new wave gone wrong. Of the stuff that is decent, I've heard a Benassi-like song in Russian (lol) and of course the hard trance type. Some other decent artists I've heard are Cappuccino and Bravo, the latter is more of a rock group, but the two artists actually sounded like "normal" music with Russian lyrics.<P ID="signature">______________
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