Thanks Rasmus, it works! xelatex solves the problem. In case someone interested, here is the solution (Gentoo distro): Add "app-text/texlive l10n_ru" somewhere portage/package.use info lives it will trigger "dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic" package installation (or install it directly if you wish). Alex Rasmus writes: > aaermolov@gmail.com writes: > >> I have a problem exporting org-mode documents with cyrillic text to >> LaTeX/PDF. As a result, Emacs says "PDF file produced with errors." and >> only English text is displayed in resulting pdf, cyrillic chunks are >> just omitted. >> >> Googling this topic gave me a bunch of contradictory ways to proceed but >> none of them give me a desired result. Searching maillist archives helps >> no further. >> >> Could you please point me in more or less right direction, appropriate >> keywords, etc? > > Did you try with xelatex? Try adding: > > #+latex_compiler: xelatex > > Obviously, you must have a working xelatex system to begin with. Lualatex > should also work. > > Hope it helps, > Rasmus > > -- > Enough with the blah blah!