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“Russification” (or localization as the case may be) of your Mac OS X is really quite simple. All you have to is click

Apple > System Preferences > International

Under the language tab all you need to do is drag Russian (or whichever langugae you want your menus to appear in) to the top of the list. Done.

But we’re not Russian language teachers are we? How do we get Russian proofing tools for those misspelled words? Russian proofing tools as well as several other langugages aren’t included in OS X. How is it done then? Simple get a nice lil app called cocoAspell (written by a Russian). What we need to do is get a hold of the latest Aspell app and the latest Russian Dictionaries. The program can be found here. The Russian dictionaries and some other ones you might want can be found here. It is recommended that you download Aspell6 dictionaries as they are best compatible with the current version of cocoAspell.

Afterwards Install. After having installed the app throw your dictionaries into /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/ to make it available to all users on the computer. Now just click the Apple > System Preferences > Spelling (or whatever this has become in your language). Check the dictionaries that you want to load from the list. And finished! Now when spell checking just make sure your dictionary is selected from the drop down list: