Russian Virtual Keyboard - Type Russian with no system keyboard support Russian Virtual Keyboard is for a person away from her/his own computer (vacation, business trip, university, work computer with no Admin Rights) who still wants to type in Russian (e-mail, notes, a forum's discussions).

New approach - this Virtual Keyboard lets a user to type as s/he get used to -
"as at home" - trying to simulate as close as possible regular input mode of a _system_ keyboard people use at home:
- same method as at home (where system keyboard tools work) - ONE button push produces one Russian letter
- same layouts that people use at home. Utility offers both Standard Russian layouts provided by an Operating System ("Russian" and "Russian (Typewriter) and a dozen of so called Phonetic (mnemonic, homophonic, transliterated) layouts that is used at home of many people who live outside of Russia (let them input Russian using the layout similar to English -
A-A, O-O, T-T, D-Russian D, F- Russian F,...), so a person could select from this dozen one specific s/he uses at home.

This Virtual Russian Keyboard is a Web page (HTML+JavaScript) that works the best in Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox, and Opera so it could be used on ANY platform -
Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac, etc.

It also could be used off-line under Windows - just download VirtKbd.exe which is a self -extractive archive, extract files from the archive and read Readme file...

This Cyrillic Keyboard has many handy features, for example, it works (and offers both Standard and Ohonetic layouts) even when a physical keyboard of a computer (say, Internet-cafe in Germany) is not in US English input mode ("EN") but rather in say German mode ("DE").
Supported modes are: German, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, British.

More about this unique feature - in the utility's documentation - see the link on the page with the words
"If your keyboard is NOT in the 'US English' mode"

This Virtual Keyboard exists in both English and Russian UI variants.