Originally Posted by franzelneekburm

The Russian is actually 'ИСКУССТВО', I am not sure where the second 'o' the others have came from.

I would transliterate it as 'Iskustvo', all the vowels are short and the last letter is an 'o'; 'ees-koost-vu' sounds like the accusative form, though that would be spelled with the Russian 'u' (written as 'y') on the end.

When going between Romance and Balto-Slavic languages letter duplications are often not preserved. For example, when Russian slang adopted the English 'Traffic' it became 'Трафик'.