I can't, but Google Language Tools can. Here's it's pretty good attempt at the main chunk of text:
In a literal sense, this is not an hour, but only thirty-five minutes.
But for boys and girls, say, or from Kamchatka in the Far North, and even if they do know the difference between Bach and Tchaikovsky, Pushkin and Tolstoy, or Mozart and Salieri, these thirty-five minutes of an unforgettable intellectual competition with their peers in the studio, may as if by magic, become a stellar moment in the triumph of their knowledge, intelligence, responsiveness, freedom of thought, intuition, in the triumph over laziness, passivity, ignorance.
His finest hour of victory here have met dozens, maybe hundreds of kids from all over Russia. And still no end of willing to test themselves on the world, the whole country. And each party can still boast a long time in front of their peers wonderful prizes from generous sponsors, received here for his victory, or simply a will to win.
