For best results, retry reading/typing Cyrillic after completing each of the 3 steps.  Don't forget to toggle to Cyrillic by simultaneously pressing the Ctrl and Shift keys.  A small blue box near the bottom right corner denotes which keyboard is being used with the letters EN for English or RU Russian.
 

1.  Check the keyboard layout:
 

• Left click the Start button.
• Select Settings.
• Select Control Panel.
• Double click Keyboard.
• Left click the Input Locales tab.
• If the "RU Russian" locale is not present, click the add button.
• Scroll down to Russian, highlight the entry and click ok.
• The RU Russian entry must also display "Russian" under layout on the right side of window.
• Under the switch locales heading, select ctrl+shift.
• Click OK.

2.  Install Fonts:

•  Select this link and save the program to your C drive. (Remember the name of the folder in which it is saved.)
• Run the program by clicking the icon or go to start, run, and type in the full path for the program russfont.exe
• When the WinZip Self-extractor window appears, press the unzip button, then press ok, and close the window.
• Go to the start menu and select settings, then control panel.
• The control panel window will appear.  Double Click on fonts.
• Fonts window will open.  Go to file, install new font.
• The install font window will open.  Select c: for the drive.  Double click the temp folder.  3 fonts should appear.
• Press the select all button, then click ok.

3.  Check font selection:
 

• Left Click on Netscape's Edit Menu.
• Select Preferences.
• The Preferences window will appear, click on fonts if available.  (Otherwise click the + next to Appearance, then click on fonts.)
• For the Encoding, choose Cyrillic.
• For Variable Width Font, choose New Russian.
• For Fixed Width Font, choose Courier Cyrillic.

Click OK.