Dear Eve,
Did you ever find a resolution for this? I'm very happy to hear you were able to get the Russian text to appear correctly in the editor--which trick(s) made that possible? I'm especially curious in case other users run into the same problem. The new editor I am working on for the 2012 version will be unicode compatible and so should have this resolved (i.e., so no tricks will be necessary).
As far as the ranking question goes--is it primarily the labels that you are having issues with? Does the Russian text work ok for the other other item types? If so, please attach the latest version of the que file and I'll see if I can modify the labels in the ranking item to allow for the text. As for the continue, go back and instruction labels, I can make these in Russian for you no problem. Can you send me graphics and or text showing me what they should look like? e.g., in a Word Document and/or a screen shot. Both would be ideal!
-Blair
ps., thank you for attaching the pdf--it was VERY helpful to see exactly what you were having trouble with.