User blog comment:Le Rottweiler/How do foreigners use the Internet?/@comment-1496755-20160325083058

Actually, cyrillic URLs have been around for some time, like президент.рф, though it is only a redirect to the Latin-named site. I know there are other sites with such names, but I can't remember them right now.

I am used to switching alphabets and it doesn't bother me. As for others - what they do is that they sometimes use Latin letters instead of cyrillic, and write stuff like "Zdrasti, kak si dnes?", which is generally frowned upon because it is seen as a desecration of the language. A specific local phenomenon is that some people use 4 for "ch" and 6 for "sh", due to the fact that these words begin with these letters (4 = chetiri, 6 = shest).

4arming 6enanigans, eh?