I confirm this bug. Both in Debian Etch and Kubuntu 7.04. None of solutions, proposed here, has helped.
In Mandriva 2007 Russian input works fine without any adaptations. -- No cyrillic input in apps under wine. https://launchpad.net/bugs/68594 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs