The Russian shard is high-volume and cheap, sitting alongside the LATAM regions at the bottom of the price board. Stock is consistently good across all three tiers, which is not true of every budget shard — RU rarely sells out, so if you need an account today rather than after the next restock, it is a reliable pick.
The client defaults to Russian but switches to English from the login screen in a few seconds, and that catches out more first-time buyers than anything else about this region. Beyond the language, it plays like any other large shard: full queues through European hours, a normal spread of ranks, and no residency requirement to sign in from elsewhere.