_{The article compares the syntactic organization of the official-business style in Russian and Swedish based on parallel texts of international agreements. Using the method of comparative analysis, the study identifies structural similarities and differences in the formation of nominal constructions. Although the official-business style in both languages is characterized by the predominance of nominal forms over verbal ones, the morphological structure and lexical-syntactic realization of such constructions differ significantly. Russian is marked by sequences of nouns in the genitive or other oblique cases. Due to the limited case system in Swedish, syntactic relations are primarily expressed through prepositions, which results in Russian genitive chains being rendered in Swedish by prepositional-nominal constructions with simple non-derived prepositions. Typical features of Russian formal language also include constructions with embedded deverbatives or semantically broad nouns such as “sphere”, “domain”, and “issue”, which contribute to the increased nominalization of official-business style. In a number of cases, Russian nominal constructions are translated into Swedish by means of infinitive constructions or subordinate clauses. The article proposes a set of transformational models for shifting from Russian syntactic structures to their Swedish counterparts, taking into account the conventions of the Swedish official-business style. The overuse of nominal forms is viewed as incompatible with the principles of linguistic economy and structural clarity embedded in the “Plain Language Policy” implemented in Sweden since the late 20th century.}