The Russian version of DCS: Black Shark has gone Gold and is scheduled to be released by the 1C company, in both retail and digital download, for the eastern market on October 17!
details here
Unfortunately, the localization for western languages is still in process, and then the game will need to spend time being rated, so we may not see the North American version until Jan 2009. 
Between now and then, they plan to release the ~550 page PDF manual, and a playable demo.
I believe that the Russian version will have option for English labels in the cockpit, or there will be options to add the localizations later.
Will you consider purchasing and downloading the Russian version?
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