Designing RU and EN Alias Structures for Multilingual Evolution CMS URLs

Multilingual URL strategy looks simple until aliases, prefixes, and editor expectations all collide. The core question in a bilingual RU/EN setup is not only “what should the URL look like?” but “which layer owns the language distinction?”

If both the prefix and the alias are trying to encode the language, the structure quickly becomes inconsistent. The cleaner approach is to give each concern a clear job: let the language marker identify the language context, and let the alias identify the page inside that context.

This is a strong Guide topic because URL structure decisions made early in a multilingual Evolution CMS site tend to stay with the project for a very long time.