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The violence began when he crashed a rented, 2-ton truck into pedestrians. News reports said he jumped out and began stabbing the people he had knocked down with the truck and then turned on horrified onlookers.

Police confirmed seven deaths – six men and one woman – but they could not say whether the victims had died of injuries from the truck or were stabbed to death.

Reports said the attacker grunted and roared as he slashed and stabbed at Sunday shoppers crowding a street lined with huge stores packed with computers and other advanced electronics.[3 - «The Moscow Times» 2008 год, AP.]

Apprehend                    Задерживать
Assault                          Нападение, атака
Confirm                         Подтверждать
Grisly                             Ужасный
Grunt                             Ворчать, брюзжать
Horrified                        В ужасе
Injury (n)                       Травма, повреждение
Mobster                         Бандит, преступник
Neighborhood               Район, окрестности
Onlooker                       Наблюдатель, свидетель
Pedestrian                     Пешеход
Ram                               Таранить
Roar (v)                          Рычать
Self-proclaimed             Самозваный
Spree                              Дебош
Stab                                Удар ножом
Stoke                              Подбрасывать топливо
Suspect (n)                     Подозреваемый
Victim                             Жертва
Violence                         Расправа, насилие
Wound (v)                       Ранить

Senior Diplomat Arrested

A senior Foreign Ministry official was placed under arrest Wednesday on suspicion of accepting bribes, Itar-Tass reported.

Alexander Gusev, deputy head of the ministry’s department on relations with federation subjects, the parliament and public associations, was detained by the Federal Security Service on Tuesday night, a ministry source told news agency.

Gusev is suspected of taking bribes in exchange for foreign travel passports and for placing people on official delegations traveling abroad, the report said.

Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court issued an arrest warrant for him Wednesday, Itar-Tass said.[4 - «The Moscow Times» 2009 год]

Accept                           Брать, принимать
Bribe                             Взятка
Department on relations        Департамент по связям
Detain                           Задерживать, арестовывать
In exchange                   В обмен на…
Issue (v)                         Выдавать
On suspicion                 По подозрению
Source                           Источник
Suspect (v)                     Подозревать
Warrant                         Ордер

83-Year-Old Murder Suspect Detained

Police in Kamchatka have detained an 83-year-old woman suspected of beating her husband to death with a frying pan, regional authorities said Tuesday.

The pensioner and her husband, 89, were quarreling at about 9 a.m. Monday in their apartment in the Far East city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky when she grabbed the frying pan, smashed him over the head with it and then passed out, the regional branch of the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

She awoke to discover that her husband was not breathing, the statement said.

Police are investigating the incident and waiting for an autopsy to determine whether the blow from the frying pan caused the man’s death, Interfax reported.

Police are reluctant to place the woman under arrest given her advanced age.[5 - «The Moscow Times» 2009 год]

Authorities                    Власти
Autopsy                         Вскрытие трупа
Awake (awoke, awoken)      Пробудиться
Beat (beat, beaten)        Бить, ударять
Blow (n)                         Удар
Branch                           Филиал
Breathe                          Дышать
Cause (v)                        Являться причиной
Detain                            Задерживать, арестовывать
Frying pan                      Сковородка
Murder                           Убийство
Pass out                         Потерять сознание
Quarrel (v)                     Ссориться
Reluctant                       Делающий с неохотой
Smash                            Ударять со всей силы
Suspect                          Подозревать

Man Learns He Is a Prisoner

A Chelyabinsk man trying to register his gun discovered to his surprise that he was officially registered as serving a prison term, regional prosecutors said Tuesday.

The man, whose name was not given, went to police to get a license for his gun and was informed that he had been convicted of vehicular homicide in 2006 and was listed as serving time in prison, prosecutors said.

Investigators subsequently determined that a distant relative of the man was using the man’s passport and driver’s license during the trial.

A Chelyabinsk court has expunged the conviction from the man’s record, prosecutors said.[6 - «The Moscow Times» 2009 год]

Conviction                      Признание виновным
Determine                      Определять
Distant relative               Дальний родственник
Expunge                          Ликвидировать
Homicide                        Убийство
Investigator                    Следователь
Learn (learnt, learnt)       Узнавать, выяснять
Serve a prison term         Отбывать тюремный срок
Subsequently                   Впоследствии
Vehicular                         Связанный с транспортными средствами