Setting up Cyrillic on your computer

For WINDOWS

If you are using XP, go to >SETTINGS, >CONTROL PANEL, >REGIONAL and LANGUAGE OPTIONS.  In the drop-down menu go to >LANGUAGE and click DETAILS. Click >ADD.  In the language list find >RUSSIAN and click >OK.  When the panel closes, click OK again.  You have Cyrillic using the Russian keyboard.   The screen TRAY will now show an EN or RU.
Be sure to tell the system how you wish to toggle between EN and RU.  The Standard is SHIFDT + ALT.  Change the language by clicking in the tray or toggle with SHIFT + ALT. 

Download the ASDF PHONETIC keyboard @ http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/russian.html   Clear directions are given on this page.  (Although MAC information is listed below, the bottom of this page also contains information for phonetic keyboards in the MAC operating system.)

The following web site contains down loadable fonts and keyboard drivers if you are using something other than XP.  There are TWO standard Russian keyboards.  I recommend neither, but rather the so-called  "phonetic" or "homophonic" keyboard.  In this layout, most Russian letters are found where their English equivalents would be.  This speeds typing.

       http://aatseel.org/fonts/wincyrillic.html

For MAC