Since not everyone on this list both receives and displays
8-bit cyrillic messages, here are the two recent ones
in "non-degradable" ASCII-Cyrillic transliteration.

Posting from Ihar Miklashevich <miklashevich@yahoo.com>

 > Gospoda, nade'ush, pomo'zete s nekotorymi problemami
 >  Delo v tom,  'cto pri popytke sozdath alfavitnyj
 > ukazatelh sredstvami TeX,
 > upor'ado'civanie proisxodit ne v soglasii s russkim
 > alfavitom.
 >
 > Por'adok pervyx bukv  A-B-'E-F-G .... (t.e. poxo'ze,
 > v por'adke latinskogo alfavita, zapisannogo kirili'tej).
 >
 > I e'w'o malenhkij vopros. Kak v bibliografii dobiths'a
 > propisnyx
 > bukv v nazvanii. Naprimer "Fraktalhnyj variant
 > uravneni'a
 > Griffitsa..."- famili'a polu'caets'a so stro'cnoj bukvy.
 >
 > Zaranee blagodaren

Answer from Gennadij V. Sotnikov <sotnikov@kipt.kharkov.ua>

 > Ixar !
 > Piwi tak "Fraktalhnyj variant  uravneni'a {G}riffitsa..."  
 > i vse budet !OK.


 %%%%  The 33 letters of the modern Russian alphabet are:
 %%%%  a b v g d e 'o 'z z i j k l m n o p r s t
 %%%%  u f x 't c w 'w q y h 'e 'u 'a

See "ASCII-Cyrillic" and the converter "email-ru.tex"
on CTAN.

Laurent S.