According to dpkg.log packages vim, vim-common, vim-runtime, vim-tiny, vim-gtk, vim-gnome, vim-gui-common from 1:7.0-094+1 to 1:7.0-122+1, to 1: 7.0-152+1, to 1:7.0-158+1, to 1:7.0-164+1. The error messages about the Russian manpage do not appear in that log. I can attach the log if you think it would be useful.
Synaptic's History tool oddly records no activity on these packages since 26 October (122 -> 152 upgrade). I'm starting to suspect this is cruft introduced by some other package some time ago. I'm still perplexed where "/usr/share/man/ru.UTF-8/" is coming from, since I don't even have such a directory on my filesystem. Hmm... a quick Google search indicates this path appearing in reports for Vim 7.0 on other bug tracking systems.
