Programmers just despise them. Really, when you are accustomed to torture some other language for the technology sake, you don't like to see that with your own, it sounds unnatural. And I believe that's not just Russia. That's what they call European education there, over the ocean. And Asian countries also pay a lot of attention to education, so when it come to development, internationalization efforts are often taken too seriously for what they worth.
Important thing is internationalization of interfaces and GUIs.
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