what's `locale` say? nano just uses the encoding set in your terminal. What are you using for your terminal emulator?
– meatspaceJun 23 '16 at 01:28
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thanks meatspace, that was what the problem was: added sudo locale-gen ru_RU
sudo locale-gen ru_RU.UTF-8 now everything works
– RyanJun 27 '16 at 05:44