I have also found a lot of Russian language patterns. Some are truly exquisite and detailed. Using a translator program is really helpful, at best and really hilarious at its quirkiest! I happen to have a couple of Russian-speaking friends that I would like to enlist for translating but I don't know if they are familiar with crochet terminology. Quite often I find a graph accompanying the written instructions and can figure out the pattern using the written pattern, the graph and and photo. Gives a really great feeling when I can make something that looks even close to the original!