A good resource for Russian-related translation. Created by Russians.

Web page translation (including links)
http://www.online-translator.com/srvurl.asp?lang=en
http://www.translate.ru/srvurl.asp?lang=ru

Text translation
http://www.online-translator.com/text.asp?lang=en
http://www.translate.ru/text.asp?lang=ru

The two domains are one resource linked together. The .ru is Russian interface, the .com - other languages.

Google has built an English translation tool for Chinese and Arabic texts — using a team that speaks neither of the two languages: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061106/full/061106-6.html

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/106518/google-asks-users-to-tweak-translations.html 

Google is hoping to iron out translation hiccups by throwing the weight of its massive userbase at the problem.

While many translation tools, such as Babelfish and Google's translate.google.com, make a decent enough go at translating a passage of text for the reader to extract the overall meaning, it is rare that any read as if written in the target language.

Google is hoping to smooth the path to fluent translations by giving its users a tool to suggest a better translation where they happen upon a problem.

The user can hover their cursor over the problem area and Google will surface the original text tooltip with a link to 'Suggest a better translation'. ...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-dictionary-translations.html

Google's automatic translation is handy for getting translations of complete sentences, paragraphs, and documents. But when you need to translate a single word, a bilingual dictionary can be very useful because it gives you translations for the many possible meanings a word might have. With that in mind, we've added dictionary translations to Google Translate. Now, for example, if you want to know how to say "play" in Spanish, you can use our dictionary translation and learn that depending on the context it can be "jugar", "tocar", or "obra", among others.