Since launching last year, Microsoft has steadily been building out Skype's automatic live-translating ability, and making it even easier to speak with more people around the world. The feature, which ...

You might not be a polyglot, but in the 21st century, the language barrier is barely a barrier at all. And now, assisting in our communication efforts is Skype, which announced Tuesday that it has ...

Dict.cc is a popular and powerful multilingual dictionary. It works with about a dozen languages and Russian is one of them. The app features a large database of words for all of its supported ...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks Russian, and for a while Tuesday she seemed to forget that not everyone is bilingual. Rice gave a Russian translator fits when she gave a nearly five-minute ...

The United Nations is now accepting applications for the upcoming competitive examination for Russian Translators and Verbatim Reporters. The examination establishes a roster to fill present and ...

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 ...

Without Edmund Wilson, America might never have gotten to know Vladimir Nabokov. It was The New Republic’s literary critic who welcomed the Russian writer in October of 1940, mere months after he had ...