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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


The Apostrophe Saga or how a Single Comma Can Ruin a Translation
You don’t need to fight with apostrophes in Russian – they don’t exist. However, that doesn’t make Russian punctuation any easier. In fact,

Yelena McCafferty
Sep 26, 20092 min read
Languages? Sprachen! Langues?
All languages are interrelated, of course. Apart from having international words in their vocabulary, such as “website”, “film”, “fantastic”

Yelena McCafferty
Aug 21, 20092 min read


Some Tips for Interpreters to Remember
What makes a good consecutive interpreter? Proficient interpreters don’t just speak the languages they interpret from and into. They start e

Yelena McCafferty
Jul 10, 20093 min read


In Twinning we Believe
I am not sure how many of our English and Russian towns successfully build on their twinning connections and it would be good to know. It’s

Yelena McCafferty
Jun 23, 20092 min read
Focus on... Interpreters
Can anyone fluent in a foreign language be an interpreter or does it require formal training and experience? Unfortunately, the language mar

Yelena McCafferty
Apr 5, 20092 min read


Russia Midlands Business Club
It’s a business club for anyone doing or thinking of doing business with Russia and it is supported by UK Trade and Investment. Membership i

Yelena McCafferty
Mar 22, 20092 min read
Doing business in Russia
Russia is where West meets East and it’s a place which was cut off from the rest of the trading world for decades, from the non-socialist pa

Yelena McCafferty
Mar 11, 20092 min read
The Rise of Russian
Now with such a large Russian population in the UK, there is a demand for Russian yet again. Some of the Russians I know already teach Russi

Yelena McCafferty
Feb 20, 20092 min read
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