Hopkins_88

Yes, delete or comment out LC_MESSAGES line.

Check output of command "locale". If it doesn't show something like this
➜ ~ % locale LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL= you will need to edit "/etc/default/locale" to look like this:
LANGUAGE=ru_RU.UTF-8 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 this should be done automatically by "dpkg-reconfigure locales", but manual changes should work too.

I don't think you need any extra packages like console-cyrillic (but it may depend on OS release).
 
ru_RU.UTF8 should be selected and generated later
 
Encoding to use on the console: UTF8
Character set to support: Guess optimal character set
Font for the console: Terminus (should be present by default and supports Cyrillic characters)
 
Keyboard layout: Russian

I actually changed the driver in last build and it was only tested on Cubietruck which has almost the same chip.
 
Now, I am using http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubietruck/AP6210
 
If you are running latest image, than try with installing this kernel:
apt-get install linux-image-banana If this will work without any other interventions (I assume you have the proper bananapro.bin) than I need to investigate why it's not working with this new driver. The problem is that I am also lack of this hardware ... to test.