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Characteristic features of scientific translation are accuracy, brevity, consistency, and logical sequence of utterance and objectivity of presentation. All these features are formed by appropriate choice of vocabulary and syntax. The main function of the documents is information message and proof of its truth.

An audio version of "Eugene Onegin" in its English translation has been made publicly available by the Digital October technology center.

Pushkin House (the center for Russian culture and language in London), together with Waterstones (a book retail network), have instituted the Russian Book Prize. The Prize will be awarded to the best authors of books on Russia written in English.

Today is the 180th birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, the writer, mathematician, logician, and author of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass".

Egyptian actor, writer and editor Wiam El-Tamimi was awarded the 2011 Harvill Secker Young Translators` Prize for her translation of Mansoura Ezz Eddin`s "Gothic Night".

"His boundless energy, enthusiasm and wide-ranging mind, not to mention the pitch-perfect, muscular and memorable prose is all on display here in a work whose publication is very very welcome indeed." - Stephen Fry

According to Oxford Dictionary "red": 1) of a colour at the end of the spectrum next to orange and opposite violet, as of blood, fire, or rubies; 2) (of hair or fur) of a reddish-brown colour; 3) used to denote something forbidden, dangerous, or urgent, etc.

The "Index Translationum" is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations.

The annual Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize is awarded each spring to honor an outstanding literary translation from German into English published in the USA the previous year.

Russian Language Day is celebrated on 6 June, the birthday of famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.

Saints Cyril and Methodius Day is celebrated on 24 May in Russia, Bulgaria and Macedonia.

May 24 is the Day Of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture. This day has been celebrated for 160 years now – no other holiday was so long celebrated in Bulgarian late history.

Iran and China have signed a cultural agreement for the translation of the classic and modern works of Chinese literature into Persian and vice-versa.

The Best Translated Book Award, or BTBA, is organized by Three Percent at the University of Rochester.