Ты хоть одно слово по русификации дебиана там видел? Нет? Ну и нечего советовать. Тем более что там оччччень серьезный ашипка есть - авторы перепутали testing и unstable
# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.
umask 022
# the rest of this file is commented out.
# include .bashrc if it exists
#if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
# source ~/.bashrc
#fi
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
#if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
# PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
#fi
# do the same with MANPATH
#if [ -d ~/man ]; then
# MANPATH=~/man:"${MANPATH}"
#fi
#export LANG="C"
#export LC_CTYPE="C"
export LC_COLLATE="C"
export LC_NUMERIC="C"
export LC_TIME="C"
export LC_MESSAGES="C"
export LC_PAPER="C"
export LC_NAME="C"
export LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
export LC_ADDRESS="C"
export LC_TELEPHONE="C"
export LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
export LC_MONETARY="C"
/usr/share/doc/console-cyr[tab]
vi /etc/console-cyrillic
# This is the system wide configuration file for cyr(1).
# In Debian it is used also by /etc/rcS.d/S61console-cyrillic
# (Package: console-cyrillic)
# LOOK:
# Change this to NO if you don't want this file to be altered by Debconf.
# Debconf: YES
# LOOK:
# Set this to NO if you don't want the package console-cyrillic
# to setup Cyrillic on console at boot-time. Otherwise set it YES.
# Bootsetup: YES