I also live in Russia and I tried to buy a laptop with windows in English but couldn't. Yes you can set it in English to type in microsoft office and web servers for example, and download certain programmes such as opera in English, but your windows package will be in Russian!I even have the windows media and internet explorer is in Russian, and when I try to download an upgrade in english, I can't! Because I already hve the latest uprades. Maybe I have, but they are in Russian. And because the system is in Russian I cant remove these programmes because I don't understand vista in Russian. And goodness knows what I am responding to with DA! for yes, and NYET for no.
Yes I would appreciate any advice on how to simply change the whole of windows from Russian into English. My only solution for me at the moment is to reinstall a windows 2000 professional of which is international, and will give me the option of any language. I had this for a previous laptop, so hopefully I can use it again.