Native Russian speaker with near-native English. Full time English-Russian translator since 1987 doing about 500,000 words, with a strong focus on legal translation. Qualified member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, UK, since 2005. Approved vendor with several United Nations agencies since 2013 (Level T1 Step D9). Prior background includes 5 years as an in-house legal translator with a major international law firm.