Hi there! Currently, we don’t have Ukrainian language in game (officially), so, players from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus use client with Russian language and don’t opportunity to play with it on EU servers. Unfortunately, Russian server is dead (50 people online on horde). For sure, we can switch in English, but, why do we need to do that if we have official Russian translation? Dear, Blizzard, please, allow playing on EU WOW Classic Anniversary server with Russian client. I see that a lot of people asking about that. Thanks!
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You, and every other russian citizen, can ask all you want… until Microsoft changes it´s policy to do business with russian residents again (which applies to Blizzard as a subsidiary of Microsoft) and /or the relevant international sanctions are lifted, it´s not going to happen.
With all due respect, this is entirely your own government´s fault, not anybody else’s. Sorry, but that´s just the way it is. Nastrowje 
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OP is clearly talking about non-Russian players who happen to speak Russian (like for example the majority of Ukraine, including their President, chief general and leader of opposition) as well as numerous people living in post-soviet space whose only tie to Russia is that they used to be a part of Soviet Union over 30 years ago (and that their mother tongue happens to be Russian).
Furthermore, you can’t even buy a subscription in Russia for almost 3 years now, and you can’t even gift one to a Russian account for almost 2 years. So the number of “Russian citizens” you are targetting in your post is absolutely miniscule.
Your state propagana-based russophobia is showing. Skål
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While I agree upon review that I may have misunderstood him and his intent, assuming any sort of political intent in any post I make here, and then on top basically calling me a mindless drone and xenophobe, for stating simple facts, is a one way ticket to ignore.
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This Nicolay supports everything the Kremlin says and has already been noticed in imperial statements, don’t be surprised that he barks as soon as someone disagrees with him
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All people not using english client should not be allowed on english realms.
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Regarding the topic, it is strange that it is impossible to simply select a language that is already in the client on another server, but I think there is a reason for this in the integration into text channels, I have repeatedly seen how the French tagged an object in the chat and it was displayed in their language, and only by hovering over it was it clear what it was, apparently entering Cyrillic will further aggravate this problem, and apparently Blizzard has no desire to make changes to the client, it would be nice to see tagged things in the client’s language, like in WoWHead now.
But they could still introduce partial integration, at least to make the quests readable for people with a weak knowledge of English.
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It is possible on hardcore realms that released a year ago to connect with cyrilics client. It’s a deliberate choice on Blizzard’s part to disable the already functioning integration for anniversary specifically. I don’t personally mind as I prefer to play in English, but it is weird they took the extra step to exclude Russin-speakers when they were included in hardcore which was already released well into sanction period.
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For me it´s simple: any and all discourse with such parties will inevitably always turn into a smorgasbord of political mud-slinging. They generally can´t even begin to comprehend how it´s even possible for someone else to not be a hyper-partisan jackass that always has to bring politics into everything, simply because they can´t refrain from it themselves. And I have absolutely zero interest in any interactions with them on a game forum. If I´m getting paid they´re getting banned, and if I´m not they´re getting blocked, period.
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Blizzard needs to put germans, french and spaniards on a separate server too. I find it annoying to see these links in these inferior languages. Russians also pay less for a sub, so they certainly should not have the privilege to play with the people paying full price.
These will be half-dead servers already at the start, and many of those who used, for example, the French client, will now go to the English server for more online, but may encounter some difficulties. This would all be solved by rules for the general chat in one language (English) and automatic conversion of tags on objects to it. But inside the guild or raid chats, let everyone write as they want.
No one will benefit from separating people across a bunch of servers
They could easily make a populated server by putting all non english speakers together. Maybe we could get rid of all layers at the same time.
Hello! I am not a citizen of Russia, I am from Ukraine, and that is my character on EU server. My main idea is to keep the Russian localization in the game (there is no other, for example, Ukrainian in the game). The developers spent a lot of effort to fully Russify the client, and no matter who speaks - but the Russian language is understood by most residents of the CIS. Unfortunately, not everyone speaks English (as my comrades do), but they do not want to play on a Russian server with an online of 50 people, because they understand that there is no point in this in the long term. I would be glad if countries such as Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries were prohibited from creating characters on European servers, but now this is not the case, respectively, players simply refuse to play on Russian servers (they are completely isolated), and players do not have the opportunity to play on a Russian-language client on European servers.
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Basically ~20% or the European population speaks Russian. That includes many current EU/NATO members.
It’s up to Blizzard to decide what is a sensible business decision.
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Why doesn’t everyone just learn English
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The economic output of the russian colonists in European countries is probably not even half that of Turkey and they don’t have their own realms.
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Because England is like 30 million. Their language is irrelevant in the European context 
Either Russian, German, Arabic, or Swahili would make much more sense as a common European language 
The massive flaw with this reasoning is that Population does not equal total language distribution, and it assumes that everybody only speaky one language. If It were so, I would not speak 4 fluently (english, German,French and spanish) and have a working understanding and vocabulary in another 3 (Russian, Turkish and Swedish)
English is de facto the most widespread language in Europe, not because of the 35 million UK citizens, but rather because it is taught in almost every Con-EU nation as a second language, some +/- 260 million people speak english at at least a casual level. That alone is roughly a third of all european citizens. AS of the most recent UN estimate of TODAY, Europe incl Greenland and European Russia has ~745 million inhabitants.
French is second with approximately 210 Million speakers, either native or ASL, in no small part because countries like Germany require some level of fluency for their Abitur (GED /High school diploma equivalent)
Then comes German, with approximately 170 Million Native +ASL speakers, many of them being in the same former soviet republics being used to justify Russian, as well as scandinavian countries that were occupied some 80ish years ago.
Russian is close behind with about 160 million…some 20 million or so of them living in Germany alone, esp the former GDR states, as well as many “returning” to their ancestral homelands from places like Kazakhstan.
And those 4 numbers alone already exceed the total population of the Entire continent including Russia by approximately 50 million people… But Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Norwegian, Czech and so on and so forth also exist…
So, What does all of theis teach us? That most europeans speak at least 2 if not 3 languages, and their preference for one in no way means that they cannot communicate properly in others. And if there is one language to bet on as most likely to be spoken, it is in fact english, followed by french and german.
And realms for all 3 of these languages and more exist and are alive and well. The assumption voiced earlier that rolling all non english languages on to a single realm would even be technically possible, much less result in only one realm ainstead of the over a dozen full realms that exist today is so ridiculously out of touch with reality it borders on being xenophobically motivated, as do other statements about “Inferior” languages by the same poster… but I´m just going to assume that that wasnt the intent and that the cause for those statements is an educational deficiency which I am attempting to correct with this post.
And they have, there used to be live and full russian realms, and there no longer are. While the reasons for that are presently not necessarily entirely rooted in business predictions and spreadsheets, as it currently stands they apparently do not agree that it makes sense to spool up russian realms inside the EU infrastructure, or they would have already done it months ago. Because renting server space and mirroring data, while costly, is not some almost impossible task… It does normally come with a 12 month minimum contract to the provider, though… But as long as Blizzard has been using the same ones, I´m fairly certain they have a similar “sweetheart” deal as we do with some of our providers that allow for aditional flexibility at a slightly increased cost.
And, just for completeness’ sake as it is not exactly irrelevant: when the hardcore realms were released, Blizzard was already a Microsoft subsidiary, but 1. likely not yet fully integrated, and 2. Microsoft’s hardline stance on dealings with russia(ns) did not go into effect until August of this year. It is one thing to keep supporting something already in place, even in a court of law… but it is another thing entirely to knowingly ignore those restrictions after the fact.
This is is clearly wrong place to ask such things. Blizzard dont answer here for such questions
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There are no english realms. There are international realms.