Best set up for XML translations

Hi There,

I am in the process of building a property website in which the content will be written directly is Russian for all the main pages.
The XML property feeds are fed into the site but are only available in English but need to be displayed in the Russian language too.
I have everything installed and working well but each time a new visitor comes into the site they need to click the Russian flag in the widget to display the property information in Russian.
Is there a way to set up the system so the English imported XML content is displayed in Russian at the first visit?
I have looked at a .htaccess method of adding /?lang=ru to every page but I wanted to know if there was a better way.
Any help would be gratefully received.
Thanks in advance

Stuart

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