A special subject of our discussion was the issue of bilingualism and theories and reality of language acquisition by bilingual children. We

A few people use machine translators with caution. Mostly because of bad personal experience. And yet it amazes me how much people, and espe

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

Very often words of Russian origin end up in English due to political changes or phenomena. Perestroika in the mid eighties, Bolsheviks earl

This guide will hopefully bring some more sense to the unique Russian working patterns such as weekend shifting.

Dealing with Russia involves a lot of bureaucracy. You need to notarise so much paperwork, do product certification, deal with Customs clear

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,

All languages are interrelated, of course. Apart from having international words in their vocabulary, such as “website”, “film”, “fantastic”

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

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

Can anyone fluent in a foreign language be an interpreter or does it require formal training and experience? Unfortunately, the language mar

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

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

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

A patronymic is not quite an English middle name, it is a name derived from a father’s name. It also varies according to the sex of the chil

Needless to say how much hassle you can get into trying to convince foreign authorities that you are who you say you are when your passport

For those in the Russian translation business translations are not a hobby. It is a job we are obliged to do well, like true professionals.

With so many Russian language professionals working all over the country, it was a brilliant idea to get together. We had a chance to talk a