Brittany, I am glad you brought this up. 

I have been wanting to ask for a while is there anyone who has translated the pages that were shown?  

We had a lot of discussion on this Journal a while back. Kirk may not have know about it.  He did not go to the palace a lot and had not been there in years according to the palace keeper. 
If it was real, She probably had it hidden somewhere and leave it to the FBI to uncover each nook and cranny and find it!  
It could be she had it for her daughter to find one day?  For all we know it was in with her children's books in her room where no one would suspect it. 







 

Do you remember where they are Tuxie?

Eastcoast - One of the translations was by someone with a Russian background. The other was by someone who just used an online translator. Both versions said basically the same thing. I really can't remember where I first saw them. It may have been Blacklist Reddit or one of the two FB sites I frequent: Blacklist Exposed or Blacklist Clearing the Red Tape. Then those translations were discussed on BSG under the episode titles that featured the diary (Miles McGrath and the next one. The translations revealed little more than the dialog we heard from Liz, as I recall - and I don't recall specifics.

My theory back then was the diary was a fake, written primarily to mislead Constantin, or possibly written in code. At that point, I also thought there was a possibility Raymond had never had an ongoing affair with Katarina, but might have been her spy handler using a fake affair as a cover. Of course, that was before Requiem.

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I finally found the Russian womans translation of the diary page that appeared next to the one Liz read in the episode. This appeared on the Blacklist Exposed facebook site:

"Can he actually ensure our safety? I still cannot answer those quesitons. Day after day is passing by and I have no answers.
This evening I was on the roof and enjoying the enjoying the stars and thinking it's interesting who Masha would resemble when she grows up as a woman. I like to think about planning a wedding and observing her marrying the man she loves. The man who will give her security.  Who will lead her to the altar? ... they are to me because up to now ... I could do ... Time will tell if I can't see because of the shadow of her hand. Where our paths will lead us?  The agency requires answers. They connected with me today. I have told them another lie. I cannot keep my thoughts in order. Only with Raymond I am honest."

The middle breaks down in meaning. I'm not sure if the translator just could not figure out the meanings of some of the words or what. But, for what it's worth, this is it.

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Eastcoast - That translation was supposedly just one of the pages. Two of the pages allegedly have the excerpts phantom Katarina is shown reading in Liz's mind.

Another person on Reddit claimed all the pages were a passage from a Russian novel:"It says this: "One Shannon's ship remained on a distant orbit. Two others landed after some preparations on the Southern pole of the planet, on a rocky stretch of land, around 4000 square km. The expedition's work concluded after 18 months, and was a huge success, with an exception for one incident, that happened due to the hardware malfunction. But the scientists of the expedition divided into two feuding sides. The discussion was about the ocean. Analysis showed it was of an organic... "

The Reddit poster says it appears to be a direct quote from Solaris by Stanislav Lem, which is a homage to Russian writer Andrey Tarkovsky. 

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I’ll have to go back and rewatch that episode on blu Ray (I believe it has commentary) because I think they said something about the journal being a Russian novel or something.

I was wrong.  It wasn’t that episode that had a commentary.  Maybe I heard it on a podcast interview?  Because I feel like they also talked about how they had to figure out if Liz read/spoke Russian.   But I do remember hearing something about a novel.