Back some time ago there was a section for Russian speakers, it was towards the bottom of the forum, by elerk. Interestingly enough, looking around in the moderator panel, it's under organizations (now at least) but they had their own subforums, sections and more. This is the "Main Page" I could find, though there is a lot more. Digging around, you need to have direct links for myself to see other things, they're not displayed anywhere I see without the direct link now. Other things that weren't included in the "Main Page" are...

• Новости
• Музыка и фильмы
• Общение
• Другие игры

Which throwing them into translator so I can read them, shows that they are things we already have on the main forum. That's just something I wanted to share for the sake of it. It's kind of cool looking around in old corners of the forum. Here's a picture.




For an answer that I remember from experiencing it. It was an unregulated mess. There wasn't and isn't still much Russian staff aside from sir and perhaps brey at that time. A lot of the boards had local mods because they knew Russian, in a Russian board. Makes sense obviously, but that in turn had a different effect when it came to moderation standards. They weren't really unified because most staff do not know Russian, and in the Russian forum, it was like their own world. The staff didn't touch things there because the language barrier, and the local mods in the RU forum had nothing to do with the other side of the forum because of obvious reasons. It spread the community too much that keeping track and moderating everything was messy. A key note is the Market. The Market section of the Russian forum was actually quite active considering the amount of users. There is just no way for Market Squad to moderate that without having a Russian member within their team.

Now add this with 5+ other languages. I know this is a little bit different of an approach I took, but I thought it was worth saying.

As for a more direct reply: if orgs are killed, I see the point you raise but it would just shift the problem to a new board. While I do think the geographical orgs are doing better than the other ones, they're just mostly small talk threads. Nothing wrong with that either, just stating it. Creating a forum for international speakers would kind of keep them in their current states now, not much would change IMO. I wouldn't justify making entire subforums for just international speakers.

EDIT:

We've also had Uni-Bash. Which was kind of similar, but they taught people about the game and other things like translating rules in x language
http://forum.toribash.com/forumdisplay.php?f=439

Link is there for "Old Unibash". Not sure if you all can click the link, but it's worth a try. Send me a PM if you can't, I'll describe it for anyone curious. It's not like it's hidden information, it was actually quite a cool concept.