MARINA BRAUN, Ph.D, received her education at the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages where she was Assistant Professor before she moved to the United States./e Her areas of expertise are cross-cultural communication, foreign language teaching, linguistics, and translation. She has over 20 years of experience in college teaching, as well as English/Russian translation and interpreting. She is a court certified interpreter in the states of Oregon and Washington. She is the president of The Russian Center, a consulting and training firm which provides translation, language teaching, and traini...