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This Russian Keyboard enables you to easily type Russian online without installing Russian keyboard.You can use your computer keyboard or mouse to type Russian letters with this online keyboard. Pressing Esc on the Russian keyboard layout will toggle the mouse input between virtual QWERTY keyboard and virtual Russian keyboard. The key will also turn on/off your keyboard input conversion. This is a tutorial that explains how to install a Russian phonetic keyboard on Mac.

Russian keyboard, standard and phonetic:
type Russian with system keyboard tools under non-Russian Windows -
layout - standard or phonetic(transliterated, homophonic - A-A,K-K,O-O,...)

You can tune-up - for Russian input - regular system keyboard tools of say English or German MS Windows.

NOTE. Recently there were many complains that one could NOT write in Russian in Internet Explorer - in the text input fields on Web pages.
A user inputs Russian text in a usual way but sees something like this on screen:
..............38B5 G09=8:C

This is not related to Cyrillic tune-up of your computer. It means that a plugin connected to your browser causes such thing.
I have here an instruction where I collect related information and offer some solutions:
Internet Explorer: gibberish on display while typing Russian

This page provides Russian keyboard activation instructions for MS Windows, that is, enabling regular system keyboard tools for Russian via Control Panel.

Also, if you want, it shows you how to use - instead of the standard Russianlayout - a so called phonetic (transliterated, homophonic) layout ('A'-'A', 'F' - Russian 'F', 'K'-'K', 'O'-'O', etc.), which by the way, is modifiable, that is, you can change my phonetic layout as you wish.

Same things for Linux, Macintosh, and gadgets (Apple and Android) are covered on other people pages and I provide the links at the end of this page, in the chapter 'Final notes about Russian keyboard usage'.

Typing Russian when system tune-up cannot be done:
at work or in a hotel's business center Windows or Mac computer

If you need to write in Russian, but you are not using your own PC, say you are in an Internet-cafe or in the library, where you can read Russian but can not write - cannot use Windows Control Panel to enable system keyboard tools for Russian, then it's still Ok, there is an easy work-around:

you can use special Web page with a Virtual Keyboard where you can input Cyrillic text (using mouse or physical keyboard) and then copy it to the place where you need it.

That is, even in that case you should not send a transliteration, latin text such as 'privet' or 'schast'ye' that will bother the readers of that message - no, you can send normal Cyrillic text.

Virtual Keyboard allows you to input via regular keyboard (though mouse can be used, too) and -important! - you can type 'as at home', choosing, in the menu below the image, same layout (Standard or Phonetic) that you use at home!

Please see for yourself: 'On-screen, virtual Russian keyboard'

While in Internet-cafe, you can use a short address of that Virtual Keyboard:

TypeRus.com (=http://winrus.com/keyboard.htm)

Obviously, it's not as handy as typing with regular Windows or Mac keyboard tools, so you should use such special Web page only in such 'corner case' as Internet-cafe or library (or if you need to type Russian not too often).

That is, if it's your own computer at home then you should spend 20 minutes -one time! - to read the instruction on this page, for regular Windows keyboard tools activation via Control Panel (with standard or phonetic Russian keyboard layout).

How to install Microsoft keyboard layout for Russian under Windows 7/8/10, Vista; XP/2003.

This page has the instructions for the two different layouts to be used with 'RU' mode of the keyboard(typing Russian Cyrillic):

Standard keyboard layout in OOB English version of MS Windows. This is the layout used in Russia.
The step-by-step instruction for Windows 7/8/10, Windows Vista, Windows XP/2003 is on a separate page:
'How to activate standard, regular Russian keyboard layout for US English MS Windows'
Phonetic (transliterated, homophonic) keyboard layout('O'-'O', 'A'-'A', 'T'-'T', etc.):
If you need such thing, then this page explains (below) how to use such alternative, custom layout.
I've made my phonetic layout to be similar to US English keyboard, that is, tried to keep most Russian letters and other symbols and punctuation marks on the same places where they are drawn on US English keyboard.
If a person types a lot using say French keyboard, s/he may want to change my Russian phonetic layout accordingly - there is an instruction for such modification down below.

What is Russian phonetic(transliterated, homophonic) keyboard layout

Here is the picture of the Standard MS Windows keyboard layout for Russian, made for the countries of the former USSR where keyboards always have Russian letters drawn on them:

If you do not have a keyboard with Russian letters drawn on it and/or you are not familiar at all with that Standard layout, then you cannot easily type without memorizing all the locations of the keys in Russian.

In this case many people use another layout, called phonetic (transliterated, homophonic) keyboard layout:

the Russian letters are located where the closest English letters are:

'O'-'O', 'A'-'A', 'T'-'T', Russian 'Ф' - English 'F', etc.

This page offers such Phonetic keyboard layout for your computer (it will work in 'RU' mode instead of Standard layout) and has step-by-step activation instruction for that.

The instruction for adding a file (not a program!) of Russian phonetic layout to the system takes a computer novice about 20 minutes and is a one-time job.

Windows offers to have several keyboard layouts for one language, so there are no 'hack' below, just Microsoft-suggested way of adding new layout to the system...
It's easy to get back original stage - to make Standard layout work again with 'RU' (covered below). Here is an example of a Phonetic layout (it's modifiable as explained below):

Note. Your physical keyboard may have different layout of 'Enter' button. Then you should find the button shown right above 'Enter' on my picture somewhere else on your keyboard.

Important.
I do not offer here any keyboard program that say lets you type in Phonetic mode, no - just files -keyboard layout files that will be used by system input software - along with the instructions on how to make such layout work in 'RU' mode.

These files work with the built-inMS Windows keyboard tools, that is, they work exactly as original layout files provided by Microsoft, no additional software is required.

Note, that the majority of Russian letters - 26 of 33 (!) have straight-forward, 'used-by-everyone' phonetic equivalent - Russian 'А' is always represented by English 'A', 'К' - 'K', 'O'- 'O', 'Б' - 'B', 'Д' - 'D', etc.
So just 7-8

Russian keyboard, standard and phonetic: type Russian with system keyboard tools under non-Russian Windows -layout - standard or phonetic(transliterated, homophonic - A-A,K-K,O-O,...)

Typing Russian when system tune-up cannot be done: at work or in a hotel's business center Windows or Mac computer

How to install Microsoft keyboard layout for Russian under Windows 7/8/10, Vista; XP/2003.

What is Russian phonetic(transliterated, homophonic) keyboard layout

Russian keyboard, standard and phonetic:
type Russian with system keyboard tools under non-Russian Windows -
layout - standard or phonetic(transliterated, homophonic - A-A,K-K,O-O,...)

Typing Russian when system tune-up cannot be done:
at work or in a hotel's business center Windows or Mac computer

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