Input and compilation/Languages/Russian

To use Russian in ConTeXt MkIV, you need a font that has cyrillic letters, e.g. the DejaVu fonts which are shipped with the ConTeXt Standalone.

• \setupbodyfont[dejavu]
  
  \mainlanguage[russian]
  
  \starttext
  Немного русского текста для пробы.
  \stoptext
  

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For more details on how to change fonts in ConTeXt, see Characters words and fonts/Fonts in LuaTeX