No,
You don't need to do translation really

Just in my old code system were getting the right picture for the choice people made in their profile. See, if a person choose "Он" (Male) then there was the code for this choice: <if condition="$post[field6] == 'Он'"><img src="images/misc/male.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="Он">
It was using if-else operators, and in your code it is just one operator<vb:if> - the way it works now is that you have two options - Male or Female and two corresponding files with names Male.gif and Female.gif - but this won't work for me cause if I'll rename my files to Russian - Unix won't be able to recognize them

That's the problem

So I need the workaround, essentially - a new version of the old code which will work in vB 4.0.1