diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 6571fe9..715dae8 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -10,11 +10,13 @@
 
 * Now it is possible to perform authentication in accounts using two factor verification again. This issue was caused due to a recent change in the VK workflow for two factor verification processes.
 * Users who have chosen to not show their online activity (specifically the last seen field in VK) will be added in people buffers. Before, those people were making socializer to raise an exception and the whole buffer was unable to be loaded.
+* It is possible to translate texts again, thanks to the Google Translate implementation added in the application.
 
 ### Changes
 
 * The spelling correction module has been rewritten to take advantage of the newest enchant Python module which is more stable and can be added properly to the distribution, as opposed to the first enchant module we have tried.
 * Better performance on Socializer should be noticed for users with many conversations opened. Before, socializer could freeze while loading all messages in conversations. Now that should work more efficiently and the application should not stop responding.
+* Socializer now uses Google Translate services instead of yandex.translate.
 
 ## News in Version 0.24
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 014d3a2..2d84afa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ requests-oauthlib
 future
 arrow
 backports.functools_lru_cache
-yandex.translate
 googletrans
 mutagen
 mock
diff --git a/src/extra/translator/__init__.py b/src/extra/translator/__init__.py
index d70f116..70d57ae 100644
--- a/src/extra/translator/__init__.py
+++ b/src/extra/translator/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import platform
-from . import translator
 if platform.system() == "Windows":
  from . import wx_ui as gui
- 
\ No newline at end of file
+from . import translator
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/extra/translator/translator.py b/src/extra/translator/translator.py
index 36ef693..ae08a4e 100644
--- a/src/extra/translator/translator.py
+++ b/src/extra/translator/translator.py
@@ -1,115 +1,116 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-from builtins import zip
-from yandex_translate import YandexTranslate
+import logging
+from googletrans import Translator, LANGUAGES
+
+log = logging.getLogger("extras.translator")
+
+# create a single translator instance
+# see https://github.com/ssut/py-googletrans/issues/234
+t = None
 
 def translate(text="", target="en"):
-	t = YandexTranslate("trnsl.1.1.20161012T134532Z.d01b9c75fc39aa74.7d1be75a5166a80583eeb020e10f584168da6bf7")
-	vars = dict(text=text, lang=target)
-	return t.translate(**vars)["text"][0]
+	global t
+	log.debug("Received translation request for language %s, text=%s" % (target, text))
+	if t == None:
+		t = Translator()
+	vars = dict(text=text, dest=target)
+	return t.translate(**vars).text
 
 supported_langs = None
-d = None
+
 languages = {
-  "af": _("Afrikaans"),
-  "sq": _("Albanian"),
-  "am": _("Amharic"),
-  "ar": _("Arabic"),
-  "hy": _("Armenian"),
-  "az": _("Azerbaijani"),
-  "eu": _("Basque"),
-  "be": _("Belarusian"),
-  "bn": _("Bengali"),
-  "bh": _("Bihari"),
-  "bg": _("Bulgarian"),
-  "my": _("Burmese"),
-  "ca": _("Catalan"),
-  "chr": _("Cherokee"),
-  "zh": _("Chinese"),
-  "zh-CN": _("Chinese_simplified"),
-  "zh-TW": _("Chinese_traditional"),
-  "hr": _("Croatian"),
-  "cs": _("Czech"),
-  "da": _("Danish"),
-  "dv": _("Dhivehi"),
-  "nl": _("Dutch"),
-  "en": _("English"),
-  "eo": _("Esperanto"),
-  "et": _("Estonian"),
-  "tl": _("Filipino"),
-  "fi": _("Finnish"),
-  "fr": _("French"),
-  "gl": _("Galician"),
-  "ka": _("Georgian"),
-  "de": _("German"),
-  "el": _("Greek"),
-  "gn": _("Guarani"),
-  "gu": _("Gujarati"),
-  "iw": _("Hebrew"),
-  "hi": _("Hindi"),
-  "hu": _("Hungarian"),
-  "is": _("Icelandic"),
-  "id": _("Indonesian"),
-  "iu": _("Inuktitut"),
-  "ga": _("Irish"),
-  "it": _("Italian"),
-  "ja": _("Japanese"),
-  "kn": _("Kannada"),
-  "kk": _("Kazakh"),
-  "km": _("Khmer"),
-  "ko": _("Korean"),
-  "ku": _("Kurdish"),
-  "ky": _("Kyrgyz"),
-  "lo": _("Laothian"),
-  "lv": _("Latvian"),
-  "lt": _("Lithuanian"),
-  "mk": _("Macedonian"),
-  "ms": _("Malay"),
-  "ml": _("Malayalam"),
-  "mt": _("Maltese"),
-  "mr": _("Marathi"),
-  "mn": _("Mongolian"),
-  "ne": _("Nepali"),
-  "no": _("Norwegian"),
-  "or": _("Oriya"),
-  "ps": _("Pashto"),
-  "fa": _("Persian"),
-  "pl": _("Polish"),
-  "pt": _("Portuguese"),
-  "pa": _("Punjabi"),
-  "ro": _("Romanian"),
-  "ru": _("Russian"),
-  "sa": _("Sanskrit"),
-  "sr": _("Serbian"),
-  "sd": _("Sindhi"),
-  "si": _("Sinhalese"),
-  "sk": _("Slovak"),
-  "sl": _("Slovenian"),
-  "es": _("Spanish"),
-  "sw": _("Swahili"),
-  "sv": _("Swedish"),
-  "tg": _("Tajik"),
-  "ta": _("Tamil"),
-  "tl": _("Tagalog"),
-  "te": _("Telugu"),
-  "th": _("Thai"),
-  "bo": _("Tibetan"),
-  "tr": _("Turkish"),
-  "uk": _("Ukrainian"),
-  "ur": _("Urdu"),
-  "uz": _("Uzbek"),
-  "ug": _("Uighur"),
-  "vi": _("Vietnamese"),
-  "cy": _("Welsh"),
-  "yi": _("Yiddish")
+  "af": _(u"Afrikaans"),
+  "sq": _(u"Albanian"),
+  "am": _(u"Amharic"),
+  "ar": _(u"Arabic"),
+  "hy": _(u"Armenian"),
+  "az": _(u"Azerbaijani"),
+  "eu": _(u"Basque"),
+  "be": _(u"Belarusian"),
+  "bn": _(u"Bengali"),
+  "bh": _(u"Bihari"),
+  "bg": _(u"Bulgarian"),
+  "my": _(u"Burmese"),
+  "ca": _(u"Catalan"),
+  "chr": _(u"Cherokee"),
+  "zh": _(u"Chinese"),
+  "zh-CN": _(u"Chinese_simplified"),
+  "zh-TW": _(u"Chinese_traditional"),
+  "hr": _(u"Croatian"),
+  "cs": _(u"Czech"),
+  "da": _(u"Danish"),
+  "dv": _(u"Dhivehi"),
+  "nl": _(u"Dutch"),
+  "en": _(u"English"),
+  "eo": _(u"Esperanto"),
+  "et": _(u"Estonian"),
+  "tl": _(u"Filipino"),
+  "fi": _(u"Finnish"),
+  "fr": _(u"French"),
+  "gl": _(u"Galician"),
+  "ka": _(u"Georgian"),
+  "de": _(u"German"),
+  "el": _(u"Greek"),
+  "gn": _(u"Guarani"),
+  "gu": _(u"Gujarati"),
+  "iw": _(u"Hebrew"),
+  "hi": _(u"Hindi"),
+  "hu": _(u"Hungarian"),
+  "is": _(u"Icelandic"),
+  "id": _(u"Indonesian"),
+  "iu": _(u"Inuktitut"),
+  "ga": _(u"Irish"),
+  "it": _(u"Italian"),
+  "ja": _(u"Japanese"),
+  "kn": _(u"Kannada"),
+  "kk": _(u"Kazakh"),
+  "km": _(u"Khmer"),
+  "ko": _(u"Korean"),
+  "ku": _(u"Kurdish"),
+  "ky": _(u"Kyrgyz"),
+  "lo": _(u"Laothian"),
+  "lv": _(u"Latvian"),
+  "lt": _(u"Lithuanian"),
+  "mk": _(u"Macedonian"),
+  "ms": _(u"Malay"),
+  "ml": _(u"Malayalam"),
+  "mt": _(u"Maltese"),
+  "mr": _(u"Marathi"),
+  "mn": _(u"Mongolian"),
+  "ne": _(u"Nepali"),
+  "no": _(u"Norwegian"),
+  "or": _(u"Oriya"),
+  "ps": _(u"Pashto"),
+  "fa": _(u"Persian"),
+  "pl": _(u"Polish"),
+  "pt": _(u"Portuguese"),
+  "pa": _(u"Punjabi"),
+  "ro": _(u"Romanian"),
+  "ru": _(u"Russian"),
+  "sa": _(u"Sanskrit"),
+  "sr": _(u"Serbian"),
+  "sd": _(u"Sindhi"),
+  "si": _(u"Sinhalese"),
+  "sk": _(u"Slovak"),
+  "sl": _(u"Slovenian"),
+  "es": _(u"Spanish"),
+  "sw": _(u"Swahili"),
+  "sv": _(u"Swedish"),
+  "tg": _(u"Tajik"),
+  "ta": _(u"Tamil"),
+  "tl": _(u"Tagalog"),
+  "te": _(u"Telugu"),
+  "th": _(u"Thai"),
+  "bo": _(u"Tibetan"),
+  "tr": _(u"Turkish"),
+  "uk": _(u"Ukrainian"),
+  "ur": _(u"Urdu"),
+  "uz": _(u"Uzbek"),
+  "ug": _(u"Uighur"),
+  "vi": _(u"Vietnamese"),
+  "cy": _(u"Welsh"),
+  "yi": _(u"Yiddish")
 }
 
 def available_languages():
-	global supported_langs, d
-	if supported_langs == None and d == None:
-		t = YandexTranslate("trnsl.1.1.20161012T134532Z.d01b9c75fc39aa74.7d1be75a5166a80583eeb020e10f584168da6bf7")
-		supported_langs = t.langs
-		d = []
-		for i in supported_langs:
-			d.append(languages[i])
-	return sorted(zip(supported_langs, d))
+	return dict(sorted(languages.items(), key=lambda x: x[1]))
diff --git a/src/extra/translator/wx_ui.py b/src/extra/translator/wx_ui.py
index 439ede8..0586a05 100644
--- a/src/extra/translator/wx_ui.py
+++ b/src/extra/translator/wx_ui.py
@@ -16,29 +16,30 @@
 #    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 #
 ############################################################
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-import wx
 from . import translator
+import wx
+from widgetUtils import BaseDialog
 
-class translateDialog(wx.Dialog):
- def __init__(self):
-  super(translateDialog, self).__init__(None, -1, title=_("Translate message"))
-  panel = wx.Panel(self)
-  sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
-  staticDest = wx.StaticText(panel, -1, _("Target language"))
-  self.dest_lang = wx.ComboBox(panel, -1, choices=[x[1] for x in translator.available_languages()], style = wx.CB_READONLY)
-  self.dest_lang.SetFocus()
-  self.dest_lang.SetSelection(0)
-  listSizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
-  listSizer.Add(staticDest)
-  listSizer.Add(self.dest_lang)
-  ok = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_OK)
-  ok.SetDefault()
-  cancel = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_CANCEL)
-  self.SetEscapeId(wx.ID_CANCEL)
+class translateDialog(BaseDialog):
+	def __init__(self):
+		languages = []
+		language_dict = translator.available_languages()
+		for k in language_dict:
+			languages.append(language_dict[k])
+		super(translateDialog, self).__init__(None, -1, title=_(u"Translate message"))
+		panel = wx.Panel(self)
+		sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
+		staticDest = wx.StaticText(panel, -1, _(u"Target language"))
+		self.dest_lang = wx.ComboBox(panel, -1, choices=languages, style = wx.CB_READONLY)
+		self.dest_lang.SetFocus()
+		self.dest_lang.SetSelection(0)
+		listSizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
+		listSizer.Add(staticDest)
+		listSizer.Add(self.dest_lang)
+		ok = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_OK)
+		ok.SetDefault()
+		cancel = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_CANCEL)
+		self.SetEscapeId(wx.ID_CANCEL)
 
- def get(self, control):
-  return getattr(self, control).GetSelection()
-
- def get_response(self):
-  return self.ShowModal()
\ No newline at end of file
+	def get(self, control):
+		return getattr(self, control).GetSelection()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/interactors/postCreation.py b/src/interactors/postCreation.py
index cb2c7e8..412c970 100644
--- a/src/interactors/postCreation.py
+++ b/src/interactors/postCreation.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import widgetUtils
 from wxUI.dialogs import selector
 from pubsub import pub
@@ -59,8 +58,11 @@ class createPostInteractor(base.baseInteractor):
 		dlg = translator.gui.translateDialog()
 		if dlg.get_response() == widgetUtils.OK:
 			text_to_translate = self.view.get_text()
-			dest = [x[0] for x in translator.translator.available_languages()][dlg.get("dest_lang")]
-			self.presenter.translate(text_to_translate, dest)
+			language_dict = translator.translator.available_languages()
+			for k in language_dict:
+				if language_dict[k] == dlg.dest_lang.GetStringSelection():
+					dst = k
+			self.presenter.translate(text_to_translate, dst)
 		dlg.Destroy()
 
 	def on_spellcheck(self, event=None):