Both involve just one section or table.
With method 1 your edit page might look like this:
Title (en) [______________________________]
Title (ru) [______________________________]
Content (en) [______________________________]
Content (ru) [______________________________]
And with method 2 your edit page might look like this:
Language [English, Russian | V ]
Title [______________________________]
Content [______________________________]
So that way you have all the content in the database. You'd have to create a second set of all your viewer pages for each language though, or have some other means of determining which fields or records to show.
So there's actually two issues, the first is how you store it all in the database, and the second is how you setup your website to show the right language.
Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com