Localised sites such as pt.SO, ja.SO and ru.SO have been hidden from the Hot Network Questions list.
However, questions from rus.SE do appear, as has just occurred:
Can rus.SE also be excluded from the Hot Network Questions list?
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Sign up to join this communityLocalised sites such as pt.SO, ja.SO and ru.SO have been hidden from the Hot Network Questions list.
However, questions from rus.SE do appear, as has just occurred:
Can rus.SE also be excluded from the Hot Network Questions list?
One of these days we'll make a checklist for all the different things we have to tweak when launching (or importing) a non-English site.
... but today is not that day.
Fixed, but it will take a bit for the hot questions cache to update and drop questions from rus.SE.
rus.stackexchange.com
orrussian.stackexchange.com
? They're both the same, AFAICT, butrus.se
is localised.