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In 2025 IBT celebrates the 30th anniversary of its work in Russia. The anniversary celebration was held as part of an international conference called "Linguistic Forum 2025: Bible Translation as a Means of Language Preservation and Development. Traditions and New Approaches," organized by IBT and the Institute of Linguistics (RAS). Read more
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A workshop on "Discourse in the book of Proverbs in Turkic languages," organized by the Institute for Bible Translation, was held in Tashkent on April 21-24. Translators and exegetical advisers from the Altai, Balkar, Siberian Tatar, Khorazm and Kyrgyz Bible translation projects participated.
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The Institute for Bible Translation has published the book of Ecclesiastes, or “The Preacher”, in the Sakha/Yakut language. The publication is introduced by a preface written by Orthodox Archbishop Roman of Yakutsk, in which he congratulates the readers on the publication of this book and notes that, despite the book’s apparent pessimism, it will help readers to understand their lives more deeply.
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Borislav Arapović is the founder of the Institute for Bible Translation, a renowned Slavist, poet, member of the Swedish Society of Slavists, the Swedish Writers' Union, the Union of Croatian Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris Causa and Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He founded IBT in 1973 with the conviction that every nation deserves to have a Bible in its own language. To this aim, Borislav Arapović initiated a large-scale effort to translate the Bible into the languages of the non-Slavic peoples of the USSR.