I have found a way to reproduce this bug, install any package that pulls in 
ispell, and /usr/lib/ispell/ becomes populated. This breaks the call from emacs 
to aspell for some reason, and ispell gets used instead. Now since there is no 
english ispell dictionary installed, spell checking stops working (at least 
partly). See also  
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dictionaries-common/+bug/179523
A temporary fix for the problem is to run

 sudo apt-get autoremove ispell

This will however break other dependencies.

To get spell checking working in emacs for your native language run

sudo apt-get install aspell-ru

I noticed that installing language-support-sv adds ispell-sv instead of
aspell-sv as it should have.

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ispell does not work in emacs22
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173524
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