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The errors I was seeing turned out to be related to the theme, so I renamed the theme folder and was able to get into /wp-admin. Site is on its way again. Thanks for the little bit of guidance.

Reading the first article, I pretty much followed those steps, except without the backup plugin. Unfortunately I don’t have a working version of the site anymore, so it’s not really an option to redo the migration this way.

I was able to get rid of some of the error message by renaming the “ad-codez-widget” plugin, but none of the links work.

This is the easy fix:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/318865

Didn’t do anything, everything started working. Maybe it was a server problem…?

I just found the answer to my own question (after 3 days of searching forums all over the place).

The answer came from https://blog.darrellnece.com/archives/185 and is quite simple:

Are you getting ???? errors instead of Cyrillic when typing Russian? This can be quite frustrating, but not too hard once you know the code to fix. Took me about half a day to figure out, so hopefully, this will save someone a lot of time. Make sure to save your original wp-config.php files in case the need arises to re-install it.
If you are on a windows server you will need to change your wp-config.php file as follows.
define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
to
define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘windows-1251′);
or
define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘windows1251′);
If you are on a linux server, such as I, you will need to change your wp-config.php file as follows.
define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);
to
//define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
//define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);