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Allegro’s staff interpreter at the Norwegian – Russian summit
Allegros staff member Alexandra N Leontieva has worked on the interpreting team at the Norwegian-Russian Business Conference held in Oslo on April 26, 2010 on the occasion of President Medvedevs official visit to Norway. Alexandra provided simultaneous interpretation between Russian and English during the session on oil and gas issues. She also interpreted the speeches delivered by the Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry Trond Giske and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg from Norwegian into English.

Statoil ASA has again chosen Allegro as a supplier of translation services
Statoil and Allegro AS signed a new framework agreement for translation services on 15 December 2009. Allegro entered into its first framework agreement with Statoil in 1998 and has since been a regular supplier of translation, language revision and interpretation services. The new agreement is for translation services from/into Norwegian, English, French, German and Portuguese.

Innovation Norway has signed a framework agreement with Allegro
Quality was a crucial consideration in Innovation Norway’s choice of Allegro. Innovation Norway emphasised expertise and the quality of translations of relevant texts. Since the majority of the work under this agreement is from Norwegian into English, it has also been taken into consideration that Allegro has many in-house English translators, both government authorised translators and other experienced translators.
The agreement also covers Sami, Russian, German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Polish.

Allegro has become a member of TBBF
Allegro is now a member of the trade organisation for Norwegian interpretation agencies (TBBF). Our quality and interpretation manager Alexandra Leontieva is a member of the board of TBBF.

The EFTA Court has chosen Allegro as its supplier of translation services
In autumn 2009, the EFTA Court and Allegro signed a framework agreement for translation services. The agreement concerns translation between English and Norwegian, and between English and Icelandic.

Staff news

Alisa Rosenvinge, née Sokolovic, married her Gjøran in summer 2009. They spent their honeymoon in Italy. Congratulations!

Sigrid Svarstad, who joined Allegro last year in a combined project coordinator/market coordinator position, is now working full-time as a market coordinator.

Elin Solstrand is working as a project coordinator, standing in for Kristina Espeseth. Elin has many years’ experience from the translation business and came to Allegro from the translation company Datadokumentasjon AS.

Allegro continues to look for a translator from Norwegian to English. Adeline Scott, who spent a few months with us from last summer, was homesick and sadly left us to return to Glasgow shortly before Christmas. A few candidates were interviewed and performed trial translations around Christmas, and in January Silje Gjerde joined the English department. Silje has a Master's degree in English from the University of Bergen, and she has also taught American literature and culture at the university.

Government authorisation exam
Siv Saure passed the Government Authorisation exam from English into Norwegian in autumn 2008. Congratulations!