vitasam: I have done a small amount of reading re: UTF-8 and Unicode, but it is too early to say whether I have the skills required to integrate that into MGedcom or not. What might be useful would be a working sample of your 'Russian' GEDCOM file (?)..
I am not sure if MGedcom is the *best* for the N8x0 -- it was my impression that it was the *only* one available This is sad, since people like to have a 'choice' in the software that they use for very purposes.