TeX Live now contains a version of gost that incluse utf8 cyrillic support as well as biblatex-gost, thus we can close this bug. Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13