[Tex/LaTex] Entering Russian characters from an English keyboard

Question

Is it somehow possible to enter the Russian word "Привет" (say) into a LaTeX document right from a standard English keyboard — so that the document could then be correctly compiled? If not, what would be better ways to do this, without using a physical Russian keyboard? I need to have the TeX file in Russian. (I use MiKTeX 2.9 with Windows 7.)

This would not seem a difficult task, but I haven't been able to do this after spending hours on the Internet.

Answer 1

Answer just for some words in Russian:

There are some sites on the web that offers a keyboard in several languages.

Just type "Russian keyboard online" and you will find sites like below:

lexilogos.com/keyboard/russian.htm

http://russian.typeit.org/

http://www.apronus.com/internet/ruskey.htm

Then, you can use LaTeX to write Russian with babel help as described here:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/72690/120578:

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[russian,english]{babel}

\begin{document}

Text in English

\begin{otherlanguage*}{russian}
Текст на русском языке
\end{otherlanguage*}

A word and another \foreignlanguage{russian}{слово}

\end{document}

Or XeLaTeX (to have the ability of using many fonts) like described here:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/835/120578:

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec} % loaded by polyglossia, but included here for transparency 
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{russian} 
\setotherlanguage{english}

% XeLaTeX can use any font installed in your system fonts folder
% Linux Libertine in the next line can be replaced with any 
% OpenType or TrueType font that supports the Cyrillic script.

\newfontfamily\russianfont[Script=Cyrillic]{Linux Libertine}

\begin{document}
Привет
\begin{english}
Hello! 
\end{english}
\end{document}

More here: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/816/cyrillic-in-latex.