Being that Yandex has not been very welcoming of the IDN.com, Google can do itself a big favour, by being IDN.com friendly.
That will only help us, as well as getting Google a very big foot in the door, of the Russian market, and ensuring them a much quicker increase in market share.
Combined with the addition of Google Adwords/Adsense for Russian, as per Michaels post:
http://www.dnlocal.com/general_discu...t-t1592.0.html
It certainly looks very good for Russian IDN.com.