Older Samsung TV with microphone remote suddenly only understands Russian

It's not just in the US. Here's someone in Germany it is happening to [1].

Some reports on the Samsung forums [2][3].

Many are mentioning their TV is a 2017 model. Mine is too, and I just noticed the problem today.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/1i8l553/samsung_tv...

[2] https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/tv/voice-command-transla...

[3] https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/LED-and-OLED-TVs/Voice-c...