No mistake. You have a 4:3 TV, and your DVD player is probably set to 4:3 or Standard, right? And my guess is the subtitles for Russian dialog are player-generated, whereas the location texts are 'burned-in'. Your player is drawing black bars to accomodate the anamorphic picture to the 4:3 aspect ratio, and then overlays the subtitles on the video image.
When you do get a 16:9 projector and set your DVD player aspect ratio to Widescreen, the player overlays the subtitles on the anamorphic (stretched) picture, so they will be displayed without any problem.
Subtitles and widescreen displays pose a problem with:
(a) non-anamorphic letterbox discs, or
(b) scope- ratioed films whose subtitles are placed outside the picture of a scope-ratioed film (and you're using variable masking).
When you do get a 16:9 projector and set your DVD player aspect ratio to Widescreen, the player overlays the subtitles on the anamorphic (stretched) picture, so they will be displayed without any problem.
Subtitles and widescreen displays pose a problem with:
(a) non-anamorphic letterbox discs, or
(b) scope- ratioed films whose subtitles are placed outside the picture of a scope-ratioed film (and you're using variable masking).