Brian W. Evans: Arduino programming notebook (PDF) now available on Russian:
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translated by:
Gololobov Vladimir (vgololobov[at]yandex.ru)
edited by:
RoboCraft.ru team
Great! I'm using the original English version in my class as a source for beginner programming.
yes - its very good book for beginners 
please post it to the playground. There is also a translation to Spanish coming on the wiki (it is already done, lacking some graphic design)