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Hi midac,
First let me confess that I do not read Russian books, but Kobos do allow you to easily copy your own fonts onto the device and use them to display book contents so you shouldn't have a problem reading Cyrillic alphabet books. Even if you don't want to do that, the built-in serif fonts, Amasis, Caecilia, Georgia and Malabar, all appear to contain Cyrillic characters.
In addition I think the book lists in the user interface all use Georgia to display Author and Title so you should be OK with those, too. The Series name display uses one of the built-in sans-serif fonts rather than Georgia so I'm not sure whether Series would display Cyrillic characters.
However, when you configure your device for the language you want to see in the user interface, Russian is not one of the languages offered. Neither are there built-in
- Russian-Russian dictionary,
- Russian-English translation dictionaries,
- Russian hyphenation dictionary
I'm not sure what the implications of all these would be for your situation. I suspect some of these limitations can be improved by hacking but you may prefer not to do that. Although I don't use it myself, I know there is definitely a hack you can apply so that the built-in 'soft' keyboard displays Cyrillic characters.
I hope a Russian Kobo user will drop by soon who can give you a much more complete picture for how suitable Kobos are for Cyrillic.
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