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Public Holidays in Russia in 2013
The reason why the festivities start later than 25th December is because the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on 7th January. Th

Yelena McCafferty
Dec 17, 20122 min read


A Snapshot of Belarus
Belarus is a relatively small country, with the population of less than 10 million people, and the majority of them are ethnic Belarusians w

Yelena McCafferty
Nov 7, 20122 min read


Launch of Conservative Friends of Russia (CFoR) Club
Apart from members of the UK’s Conservative Party I met business people trading with Russia or interested in establishing trade relations wi

Yelena McCafferty
Aug 25, 20122 min read


Streets, Lanes, Squares… What a Tangled Web we Weave
One of the things which have amazed me since my move from Russia to the UK more than 10 years ago is the English way of naming their streets

Yelena McCafferty
Jun 18, 20122 min read


Russian Interpreters Meet in Nottingham
As usual, during our networking lunch interpreters talked about tricky working situations we found ourselves in and about various ways of ma

Yelena McCafferty
Mar 24, 20121 min read
Focus on Ukraine
To an inexperienced traveller, Ukraine is probably just a former republic of the Soviet Union, often confused with being part of Russia. Rus

Yelena McCafferty
Mar 8, 20122 min read


Russia Midlands Business Club: Video
With Russia holding a number of high profile sport events in the next few years, this means there are a lot of commercial opportunities for

Yelena McCafferty
Aug 1, 20111 min read


Russian Interpreters meet up in Lincoln
This was our fourth networking lunch over the past 3 years and it was great to see colleagues again and discuss the current situation in the

Yelena McCafferty
May 14, 20112 min read


Russian Adoption: A Practical Guide
This book on Russian adoption covers the following areas: getting started, UK process, notarising and apostilling, choosing a facilitator, r

Yelena McCafferty
Mar 21, 20111 min read
2011: Public Holidays in Russia
We thought it might be useful to give a full list of public holidays in Russia in 2011 as it would potentially prevent any confusion or misu

Yelena McCafferty
Jan 7, 20111 min read


Russian Interpreters Meet in York
Russian interpreters from Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Sheffield, Leeds and Cheshire, gathered together to discuss career development, a changin

Yelena McCafferty
Nov 27, 20101 min read


Who do we think we are?
Some of our translation work is directly related to family tree research. Many Britons manage to get hold of documents written in foreign la

Yelena McCafferty
Aug 20, 20102 min read
Adopting from Russia
As a Russian translation company, we can help adopters in a number of ways. Firstly, we can translate documents from English into Russian.

Yelena McCafferty
Aug 17, 20102 min read


Что такое сертифицированный перевод
В России принято заверять переводы у нотариуса, после чего перевод считается «официальным». Причем в России нотариус не всегда владеет необх

Yelena McCafferty
Aug 3, 20102 min read


Russian Interpreters Meet in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
A special subject of our discussion was the issue of bilingualism and theories and reality of language acquisition by bilingual children. We

Yelena McCafferty
May 9, 20101 min read


Would you care for Monseigneur the Chicken?
A few people use machine translators with caution. Mostly because of bad personal experience. And yet it amazes me how much people, and espe

Yelena McCafferty
Apr 17, 20101 min read
Why a Washing Machine Turns into a Car or on Linguistic Interference
Russian speaking migrants living in the UK are beginning to confuse things too. Local councils are referred to by them as Consulates. So a c

Yelena McCafferty
Mar 20, 20102 min read
From Tsars to Oligarchs
Very often words of Russian origin end up in English due to political changes or phenomena. Perestroika in the mid eighties, Bolsheviks earl

Yelena McCafferty
Feb 4, 20102 min read
Christmas over, back to Business
This guide will hopefully bring some more sense to the unique Russian working patterns such as weekend shifting.

Yelena McCafferty
Jan 10, 20102 min read


Follow the Moskva, down to Gorky Park, Listening to the Wind of Change…
Dealing with Russia involves a lot of bureaucracy. You need to notarise so much paperwork, do product certification, deal with Customs clear

Yelena McCafferty
Nov 6, 20092 min read
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