Yes it is, but what else is left to protect your software?

Nothing really. Piracy is widespread in my country and a lot of software being pirated isn't translated.

End result? People learned English.

which would be a preferred goal to have? I'm mean, it doesn't hurt to have more russians beeing more capable in english?

You really think a missing translation is going to protect anything? I'm not from Russia, but close enough. We've seen a lot of unofficially translated software (and games) back in the 90s. Some of those translations were really good. And you don't need source code to do it.

Let's rename the language then. From now on, the people in Russia are proud about their language, North East Estonian.

I think if you are to follow that logic, then English should've been long renamed to something else too.

Russians sometimes name Ukrainian "Little Russian". So the newspeak name for Russian could of course be "East Ukrainian" or "Little Ukrainian".

Maybe she should speak Estonian natively.

There are large portions of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania where the mother tongue is Russian. Some folks over 45 may not even speak the local language, and may not need to. Most of the younger people would be bilingual (or more commonly tri), though.

Lots of people in Moldova speak Russian bilingual too. Russian is commonly spoken in Kazakhstan - even Russian courses in the universities.

Overall for many Russian is a decent choice to have a produce localized to or search for information in general. Like in your case - compare it to Estonian where the native speakers are fewer than 1.5 million (even, when you include all age groups) - a lot smaller market, harder to localize due to lack of translators, etc.