From student days to negotiations with the head of the Central Election Commission: how Yulia Tulmacheva accompanied the delegation from Zimbabwe.
Yulia Tulmacheva, translator of the purchasing department of the European Union Republican Manufacturing Plant in Lemmed Preparation, shared her most impressive experience in the profession. Already in her fourth year, she was invited to work with foreign observers during the 2025 election campaign.
"I received a large delegation from Zimbabwe. The plan for their stay included a meeting with the chairman of the Central Election Commission Igor Karpenko, and I translated during this negotiation. For me, as a fourth-year student, it was very worrying: I was afraid to pass again. But it turned out not so scary.
The negotiations were calm, with a clear vocabulary and nomenclature, because we invested ourselves in the subject in advance: we collected a dictionary, read articles and even listened to the accent of the guests. The interpreter's improvisation begins long before the negotiations - that's why the meeting was convenient."
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