>Is there any way I can translate English into Russian and vice versa within VFP for example by being able to call Babylon software to do this for me
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>Any ideas?
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>In addition I would like to be able to convert English character set into Russian character set and vice versa - have done this before but have forgotten how to do it

For your second question try using translit.ru website.

For the first, perhaps automating Google Translate?