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 ...

President Donald Trump’s private discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit is highly unusual but not completely without precedent, a foreign policy expert said on MSNBC. Ian ...

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 ...