It's actually surprisingly coherent. Is Russian easier to translate than other languages or has Google's automated translation just gotten that good?

Russian language is indo-european, therefore the result is much better than if you're translating from chinese or turkish.

Google translate is good at lexical translation but still can't bind words together properly (and probably never will unless they'd change their paradigm).

I have to add that original text is surprisingly incoherent. They surely didn't re-read it after they wrote it.