https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55018
--- Comment #1 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com --- I cannot follow what you mean with "add to the script". Do you want to modify the script or enter russian characters on the command line?
What is the complete error you got.
Did you set your transliteration_target and console_encoding in your user-config.py
reload(sys) after import sys does not matter since it just reloads the same module