Looks really good, love the green.
Personally I don't understand the argument against text+icons, since you'd still have plenty of other english mods like escape, nav keys and bottom row...I guess if it came to me I'd go for whatever og russian kbs have always used?
Strongly agree with the latin alternate base kit instead of latin alphas though. I can touch type ok, but when it comes to punctuation I need to look, and that layout is all over the place. As much as I love the look of cyrillic I'd have to go for the latin anyway...
(please also consider accents!)
(And please consider novelties!)