From 7 to 14 July 2023 SCIT holds a seminar Institutional Interpreting from Russian for interpreters from international organizations. The purpose of the seminar was to familiarize those working with the Russian language with the topical political lexis in Russian to speak about Russia’s home and foreign policy at present and in the recent past. Among the participants are the interpreters from  the UN Headquarters in New York, UN Offices in Vienna and Geneva. The trainers all teach at SCIT, and are practising interpreters themselves.

At the seminar the participants will dwell on such challenging issues as contextual and polysemantic lexis, the basic concepts of the Decree on State Policy in Strengthening Russia’s Traditional Values, lexis and narratives of Russia’s home and foreign policy. The trainees will practice interpreting Russia’s high-profile officials with a strong evaluative component as well.

Seminars such as this have been organized by SCIT several times before. Now the distant learning mode allows to expand the number and geography of participants. We deem this seminar very timely as interpreters from Russian play an important role in how our country is perceived abroad. We hope the seminar will contribute to better understanding among the nations of the world.