All the words are transliterated to latin characters , as cyrillic letters can not be displayed without cyrillic screen drivers - so these dictionaries show phonetics.
Anyway, knowledge of basic Russian words can be a great help in contacts with Russians.
There exists a lot of Russian language study educational programs.
Other Russian language support software,texts are also available.
If any questions, you can write E-Mail to : ruslan@frinet.spb.su