Ryskan har en bred och varierad repertoar av svordomar och grov slang. Det kan vara ett problem när man översätter från ryska till - till exempel - svenska. ("Vi svenskar är alldeles för spinkiga i anden för att använda ryska svordomar" som min ryskalärare sa en gång i tiden.) Det betyder ju dock att översättningar åt andra hållet kan, ähum, förhöjas. Moscow Times berättar om översättaren som specialiserat sig på att göra extra saftiga översättningar till ryska av västerländska filmer:

"A pirate DVD or video cassette with his 'Special Version' stamp on it guarantees the viewer that no obscene language will be softened or lost in translation.

When his movie translations began floating around the Internet in 2001 and started appearing in video kiosks a year later, his work started gaining a wider audience.

'He's really fashionable right now,' said Masha, a salesperson at a video kiosk near the Vodny Stadion metro station in northern Moscow. 'People come by all day long asking if we have Goblin translations.'

Puchkov's English-language education consists of translating Led Zeppelin lyrics by himself in school and a two-year course at the Dzerzhinsky Police House of Culture. When he encounters any slang or jargon, he consults friends in the United States via e-mail.

Puchkov alias "Goblin" har också gjort sin egen speciella version av Sagan om Ringen:

"By far the Goblin films most in demand are Puchkov's farcical translations of the first two 'Lord of the Rings' films. (...) Puchkov sets J.R.R. Tolkein's tale in Russia and re-christens several characters with comical Russified names. For example, Frodo Baggins is renamed Fyodor Sumkin (from the Russian word sumka, or bag), and Gollum is renamed Goly, the Russian word for 'naked'.

The films feature some obscene banter, conversations about newly built McDonald's restaurants and a soundtrack including songs from Tatu and Zemfira, among others."

A St. Pete Goblin Doesn't Mix Words

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