Yes, MT is favourable to many russian traders as well as russian brokers. Personally, I think MT is not gonna say "ta ta" anytime soon. MetaQuotes might have got a strong support from USA-based companies recently, that's why they can divide some capital to develop MT4 until now, and the release date is 1st Jully. In return, MetaQuotes might have to do foreign companies a favour back, like the changes of MQ4 syntax and better doc in English. If MetaQuotes work on MT4 alone, they would choose to leave the MQL syntax intact, which would please their old clients. In short, MetaQuotes' strategy now is to expand the foreign market of their MT platform. If MetaQuotes has planed right, we will all see upcoming supports from big brokers.