Pavel Palazhchenko on Diplomatic Interpreting

... wasn’t long before I realized that I wanted to be an interpreter and translator. Is the interpreter an invisible hand, an echo of the speaker or more like a participant in negotiations in his own right? It depends. All sorts of people may act as interpreters: usually these are professional interpreters, but sometimes diplomats have to perform the interpreter’s function. I witnessed such episodes involving our outstanding diplomats – Yuly Vorontsov, Alexander Bessmertnykh and American ...