How to write russian and see the letters:
1. Go into regional settings (Control panel > Regional settings)
2. Press on Language.
3. Press on the button Advanced or something, dont remember what the name was.
4. Press add then select russian and click ok.
5. put in your windows cd into your dvd and press ok (since a window will come up and tell you to insert windows xp install cd)
6. Now open Control Panel > regional settins > Advanced > and you will see a bar, press on it and scroll down 'till u find russian.
7. Under the bar when u just selected russian, find (Russian- KOI8) and select it.
8. Press ok and repeat step 5.
9. restart computer and it should work.
To write it, you will need to press shift and left alt button so you will change your keyboard to russian.
and when you're in silkroad, then press ALT GR.