Oh, those Russians.

[theweaselking]

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[pansy-burke.livejournal.com]

It's an ad for plastic surgery.
But you surely knew that :-)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No, actually, I had no clue. I don't speak Russian beyond what it takes to say yes, no, your papers please Comrade, and some unprintably rude things.

And I can't read Cyrillic at all.

So what's it say?

[mhoye.livejournal.com]

I'm betting that's "before" and "after", myself.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I picked that much up. I'm curious about the stuff underneath.

[pansy-burke.livejournal.com]

The sheep says: "Do", the hottie says: "Posle"
"Do posle" means sth. like: "See you soon"
"Posle" alone means "later" or "after". So besides the "see you soon" it has the "before" and "after" reference. Very clever.

Text text says: Klinika plastitcheskoj chirugii Doctora Lemonova. Dorogo.
Plastic Surgery Clinic of Doctor Lemonov. Good.

Sorry, I have no idea about right transcriptions. But I'm pretty sure about the translation. I'm German and studied Slavistics once. But that was in another life...

[winterkoninkje.livejournal.com]

The transliteration's pretty accurate. I'd use a K in "doktora" for consistency even though it obscures the etymology somewhat (of course you used K in "klinika" :) The only other thing would be the Ч vs Х, the former being akin to the english "ch" (german "tsch") and usually transliterated as such, the latter being more like the german "ch" as I recall and often transliterated irregularly (sometimes "c", sometimes "kh", sometimes whatever the transliterator felt like at the time).

As for the translation, I've no clue. Like german, I can only pronounce russian and identify the obvious cognates :) Of course there are a lot of cognates in there: clinic, plasticblahblah, surgery (chirugury ala the french), doctor.