1st January to 8th January - New Year holiday season, with Russian Christmas celebrated on 7th January. 23rd February - Defender of the Fatherland Day. As it falls on a Sunday, the following Monday 24th February is also a day-off. 8th March – International Women’s D...

Your Russian-speaking clients will be delighted to receive an individual Christmas greeting from you in authentic Russian. So this is our gift to you this Christmas. Because we know that business relationships work both ways.

Спектакль невозможно смотреть без смеха и аплодисментов. Муравьёва бесподобно на полном серьёзе произносит пронизанные юмором реплики. Её героиня то с сожалением, то с хвастовством, то с восхищением вспоминает своё прошлое, и зритель чувствует каждую её струну. Волны с...

Если вы неоднократно меняли российский заграничный паспорт, не исключено, что в каждом паспорте ваше имя было написано по-разному, ведь правила транслитерации на латиницу менялись, и не один раз. Казалось бы, Мария – простое имя, но оно может иметь несколько вариантов:...

Few people would need convincing that interpreting requires a practitioner to possess a wide range of skills, with language proficiency being only the most obvious one. Good memory, note-taking strategies, even acting skills (sometimes coupled with impartiality) come i...

In pre-Communist Russia by tradition parents named their newborn baby after a saint whose feast day it was. And you could only christen your child after a saint. This is still true for the Russian Orthodox Church today: you can name your child whichever name you want,...

A lot of people generally crave creativity and most understand that progress can only be made if new things are introduced and tried out, especially in our day and age when technology is racing ahead. Yet, experience shows that we have all sorts of negative reactions w...

Why translate Russian brands when you can make a clever use of Cyrillic and Latin alphabets? Some brands will use Russian characters to write an English word they adopt, others will go for a Russian name but written in English. The new exciting trend is to use a mixtur...

It’s no secret that alcohol and crime can sometimes go together. During police interviews questions can come up about how much a suspect had to drink and what strength the drink was. This is where the confusion can start. For instance, if someone says they only had 1...

К счастью, работа переводчика совсем не предполагает автоматическое отчеканивание слов и предложений. Нередко в нашу задачу входит и объяснение культурно-исторических реалий, вызывающих недоумение у людей, незнакомых с русской культурной средой. Так как же все-таки мы...