This is the original press conference in the Russian press congress last year where the president emphasized the importance of domains in Cyrillic to Russia.
Starting on 2:00 and ends on 2:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5zlU...layer_embedded
"Our users are using the internet on a regular basis.
We need to do all that we can do to acheive cyrillic domains.
This is a serious thing..."