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This paper presents and discusses several findings of an empirical study of consecutive interpreting of French political speeches into Russian, which aimed to provide evidence about quality peculiarities of interpreting by professional vs nonprofessional informants. The starting-point for the present study was the hypothesis that interpreting performed by an experienced interpreter would, at various levels, differ from that of “true bilinguals” without interpreter training, or of graduate students beginning their studies in the subject.