When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Skype Translator is an ambitious project to help people of different languages share in real-time ...

Russian search engine Yandex is having a busy week. After flicking the switch on its PayPal competitor Yandex.Money so that it supports other countries in the CIS region beyond Russia, the company has ...

The ease with which we can now translate web pages between different languages has surprising origins in the power struggles between Russia and the US. There are times when I feel as if I’m truly ...

Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a Seattle-based translator of Uzbek and Kazakh literature, as well as a certified Russian to English translator. Her translations have been published in a number of leading ...

A pre-eminent translator of contemporary Russian authors like Tatyana Tolstaya and Vladimir Sorokin, she won a prestigious prize for translation in 2016. By Daniel E. Slotnik Jamey Gambrell, an ...