russian seo

Hey, dudes and dudesses :) I know this forum is a second home for SEO pros from all over the world, I thought maybe you can help me figure this out. Currently, I'm optimizing a web-site for my Russian client. And I was wondering what language should I use for pics titles or URLs and stuff like...

While I have had good success with my English site, i'm practically stuck for ideas when it comes to pushing my Italian, Russian sites (hosting on my subdomain such as it.mydomain and ru.mydomain) As a general practice, I submit my content to Digg/StumbleUpon/Vkontakte/Delicious. My sites are...

I've recently been asked by a relative from Moscow to help promote his site on russian search engines like yandex and rambler. I was wondering if anyone here knows if the same tactics apply. Would senuke and scrapebox have the same effect on the russian search engines as it does on others? If...