On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 Igor A. Kotelnikov submitted an update to Babel's support for Russian texts.
License type: lppl
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Russian language definition file russian.ldf for babel package is updated. In new version 1.2, support for LuaTeX and XeTeX is added and few bugs are fixed. Run latex russian.dtx to obtain complete documentation.
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This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel-contrib/russian . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/russian package (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf