Новости из прошлого на английском языке. Выпуск №4

Court marshals      Судебные приставы
Debt                      Долг
Fail                        Потерпеть неудачу, не исполнить
Fetch                     Приносить доход, зарабатывать
Fulfil                      Выполнять
Income                   Доход
Obligation              Обязательство
Owe                        Быть должным
Pay a debt (paid, paid)    Выплатить долг
Pedigree                 Породистый, элитный
Precious                 Ценный
Property                 Собственность
Puppy                     Щенок
Remain                   Оставаться
Seize                       Конфисковать, налагать арест
Sell (sold, sold)       Продавать
Sole source             Единственный источник
Threaten                 Грозить
Try                           Пытаться
Wrinkled                 Морщинистый

Foster Child Survives Flight Inside Landing Gear

A 17-year-old foster child survived a 50-minute flight hidden in a plane’s landing gear in Siberia, investigators said Tuesday.

The stowaway crawled into a space above the wheel of the An-24 turboprop operated by Angara Airlines at an airfield in the town of Kirensk on Saturday, the Investigative Committee said in a statement. Television reports said he survived the 50-minute flight to Irkutsk in just a light coat, despite temperatures of minus 30 degrees Celsius. Investigators said the stowaway had fled a center for foster children, and the TV reports said he had robbed a nearby store before climbing inside the plane.The teen, identified as Roman Sorokovikov by Komsomolskaya Pravda, was being treated for frostbite.

In 2007, the body of a man was found near the runway of Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. Officials said he had fallen when the landing gear was deployed. Just before that incident a young man from Perm flew into Moscow in another plane’s landing gear niche. He survived the flight but was hospitalized with severe hypothermia.[7 - Фрагмент взят из газеты «The Moscow Times» 2010 год]

Climb                  Взбираться
Crawl                  Ползать
Deploy                Использовать, развертывать
Despite               Несмотря на…
Fall (fell, fallen)         Падать
Find (found, found)    Находить
Flee (fled, fled)           Убегать
Foster child         Приемный ребенок
Frostbite              Обмороженное место
Hide (hid, hidden)      Прятаться
Investigator          Следователь
Landing gear        Шасси
Light coat              Легкая куртка, пальто
Nearby store          Ближайший магазин
Rob                        Ограбить
Runway                  Взлетно-посадочная полоса
Severe                    Тяжелый, суровый
Space                     Пространство
Statement              Заявление
Stowaway               «заяц» на транспорте
Survive                   Остаться в живых
Treat                       Лечить
Wheel                     Колесо

Chernomyrdin Is Laid to Rest

President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin paid their respects to veteran politician Viktor Chernomyrdin, who was buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery on Friday. The political tandem praised Chernomyrdin’s efforts to stabilize society during post-Soviet reforms.

The longest serving prime minister in post-Soviet Russia, Chernomyrdin died on Wednesday at the age of 72. «The sentiment in society was hard… He did everything he could to calm society and at the same time solve urgent economic problems,» Medvedev said during the state-organized funeral.

The ceremony was aired live on the state-owned Vesti 24 news channel. Chernomyrdin played a decisive role in supporting former President Boris Yeltsin during some of the darkest moments of the 1990s, negotiating for the lives of hundreds of hostages with a Chechen warlord and even holding the reins of power while Yeltsin underwent heart surgery in 1996. The former mechanic also will go down in history for his creation of Gazprom, which holds 17 percent of the world’s natural gas reserves. The gas behemoth is by far the Kremlin’s most powerful economic tool in its global political plays. At Novodevichy Cemetery, Chernomyrdin was buried next to his wife of nearly 50 years, who had died in March. Russian media, citing medical officials, reported that he had died from a heart attack.[8 - Фрагмент взят из газеты «The Moscow Times» 2010 год]

Air live                  Передавать по ТВ с места событий
Behemoth             Громадина, монстр
Bury                      Хоронить
By far                    Общепризнанно
Calm                     Успокаивать
Cemetery              Кладбище
Cite                       Цитировать
Decisive                Решающий
Effort                    Усилие
Even                      Даже
Funeral                 Похороны
Hold the reins of power      Держать бразды правления
Hostage                 Заложник
Lay (laid, laid)        Хоронить, класть в могилу
Lay to rest              Хоронить
Negotiate              Вести переговоры
Praise                    Хвалить, восхвалять
Rest                       Покой, отдых
Sentiment              Настроение
Society                   Общество
Solve                      Решать
Support                  Поддерживать
Surgery                  1) операция, 2) хирургия
Tool                        Инструмент
Undergo (underwent, undergone)    Проходить (лечение)
Urgent                    Срочный

Luzhkov Says His Family Not Safe in Moscow

Former Mayor Yury Luzhkov said he has sent his daughters to study in Britain because he feels unsafe in Russia. In an interview with Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, Luzhkov said he and his billionaire wife, Yelena Baturina, had «very serious grounds» to worry about their safety. «There is hatred out there. And if that hatred is all-consuming and the aim is to get at the family then the weakest link… is the children. We are afraid to leave them here in Russia,» he was quoted as saying. Luzhkov added that he and Baturina decided to send their daughters, Yelena, 18, and Olga, 16, to London «for four to six years,» first to study English and then to enroll in an undisclosed university. He said the two girls had already left Moscow State University and were living in a house that the family rents in West London.

Moscow police said Monday that they were unaware of any threats against Luzhkov’s children. «We ask Luzhkov to tell us if any such facts exist. We are ready to start a rigorous investigation,» police spokesman Viktor Biryukov told RIA-Novosti.

Luzhkov’s comments followed media speculation that he was planning to move abroad after President Dmitry Medvedev fired him on Sept. 28 for «loss of confidence.» Luzhkov said that while the decision to send his daughters abroad had been difficult, he had no plans to leave the country. «I am a Muscovite, I was born in Moscow, I am a patriot of my country, and it will be difficult to get rid of me. Why should I leave? Especially since it could be a gift for those in power who hate me,» he said.

«Luzhkov’s talk about threats probably reflected his wife’s business interests,» said Alexei Mukhin, director of the Center for Political Information. «Luzhkov has now become useful for Baturina by being seen as a democratic leader,» he said. Baturina, who has been accused of amassing a billion-dollar fortune by skimming the city’s lucrative real estate deals while her husband was mayor for 18 years, has vehemently denied media reports that she is selling her company, Inteko, or moving assets abroad. Luzhkov, however, accused «businessmen close to the Kremlin» of initiating a campaign to take away the company. «They have already been to my wife’s firm,» he said, adding that Inteko was «a tasty delicacy.» He did not name anybody. Inteko last week denied a report that Baturina and Luzhkov were negotiating with billionaire Senator Suleiman Kerimov to sell the firm. Kerimov is seen as close to the government.[9 - Фрагмент взят из газеты «The Moscow Times» 2010 год]

Aim                       Нацеливать, стремиться
All-consuming      Всепоглощающий