Translation resources question

[Josh Wilson]

Elena, 

Bit of a late response but if you are still looking: 

Kremlin.ru has English translations of almost every major address given by
the Russian president. Medvedev's site from when he was "campaigning" for
president is still up and contains many of the speeches he gave during the
time frame of the 2008 presidential elections. See it at
http://www.medvedev2008.ru/english.htm

While there isn't too much in the way of speeches there,
http://www.theotherrussia.org does have a fairly substantial amount of
translated articles and such written by those politicians no longer
represented in the Duma. 

Unfortunately Russia's other two major parties, the KPRF and the LDPR, don't
seem to get a lot attention from translators anymore. My own organization,
though, has just finished a major project - translating Zhirinovsky's 2007
manifesto. That can be viewed here
http://www.sras.org/the_world_according_to_zhirinovsky 

Russia's fourth represented party, "Fair Russia," I don't think has gotten
any major attention at all since their inception. 

Zhirinovsky and Zyuganov both were authors of full books that were
translated in the 1990s - if you are looking to go back a little further. 

If you are looking for more historical documents, many can be found liked to
here: http://www.sras.org/library_russian_archives as well. The "Marxist
Writers' Archive" is especially rich in materials.  

I hope that helps a bit. Perhaps someone else on this list would like to
point out that I'm wrong when I state that there are relatively few
resources out there for the actual speeches and available translations of
politicians own words? I'd love to hear that. 

Best,

Josh Wilson
Asst. Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor-in-Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
www.sras.org 
jwilson at sras.org

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Subject: [SEELANGS] Translation resources question

Dear Seelangers,

Could you please help me with finding any Web resources  - if there
are some - where they post the speeches of
politicians and their translations (English/German/Spanish - Russian,
Russian -
English/German/Spanish)?

With gratitude,

Nikolaenko Elena


E-mail:
nem at online.debryansk.ru
http://www.acr.scilib.debryansk.ru/ruslat1/index.html

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