Importing Russian audio to iTunes

I'm new to Mac OS, so this may be a simple question. I work in both the English and Russian language. I have a number of Russian mp3 CDs that have audio files titled in Russian (Cyrillic). Importing these files directly from the CD to iTunes not only titles like "‹åêè è ìîñòû" within the program, it also titles the mp3 file saved to the computer in this jumble. I have also tried physically editing the individual file names as I import the files from the CD to the computer in legible Cyrillic. However, the files are still imported with the strange Latin characters. I was under the impression that Mac OS X could handle non-Western languages very well. However, I'm finding that my old Windows XP machine could work with Cyrillic better (at least in this case). Does anyone have an idea what is going on and what a possible solution would be? Thank you!
I'm running iTunes 7.6.2

You need to change the ID3 tags to Unicode. See if this note helps:
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