Автор-составитель Анна Пигарёва

ISBN 978-5-0050-5037-3 (т. 3)

ISBN 978-5-0050-5038-0

Создано в интеллектуальной издательской системе Ridero

Такими разными были новости в 2010 году

Новости для сборника подобраны из газеты «The Moscow Times» 2010 год

Daughter of Kiev Mayor Reports $5.5 Million Worth of Jewelry Stolen From Her Purse in Paris¹

PARIS – The daughter of Kiev’s mayor told police that she was robbed of 4 million euros ($5.5 million) worth of jewelry as she traveled by car from Charles de Gaulle airport to the French capital, Paris police said Tuesday.

A spokesman for her wealthy father, however, immediately denied the report, which could be embarrassing considering that his daughter heads a charity organization funded by his own city government and many Ukrainians are struggling amid a widespread recession. A Paris police official said Kristina Chernovetska reported that a man broke into her luxury car Monday as it stopped on a highway north of Paris, then stole her purse. Chernovetska reported the incident to authorities and said the purse contained valuable rings and earrings, the official said. The official was not authorized to be named according to police policy and gave no further description of the jewelry. But a spokesman for Kiev Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky denied that there was a robbery. «This is somebody’s bad joke. We completely deny these reports about a robbery. There was no robbery,» spokeswoman Marta Hrymska said.

Chernovetsky was one of the first banking magnates in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union and sold his Pravex Bank for 493 million euros to Italy’s lntesa Sanpaolo in June 2008. His term as mayor since 2006 has been marked by persistent corruption scandals, and he has often boasted of his daughter’s charity work to bolster his scarred public image. This would be the first public flap involving Kristina.

French police said they contacted the Ukrainian Embassy about the incident, but the embassy would not comment on it Tuesday. Hrymska insisted that Chernovetska was in Kiev on Tuesday, but her whereabouts remained unknown. A receptionist at the luxury George V hotel just off the Champs-Elysees confirmed that a «Christina» Chernovetska was registered, but it was not clear whether that was the same person. At the George V, the least expensive room is 750 euros ($1,025) a night. Luxury limousines lined up in front of the hotel for guests in furs and designer sunglasses, while diners inside lunched beneath crystal chandeliers. Among goods on sale at the George V are 100,000 euro ($136,700) pearl necklaces.

Chernovetska, 30, has degrees in law and economics, and she heads the charity organization Luchshy Dom, or «Best House,» a home for poor older people funded by the city of Kiev. She has also previously worked on her father’s political campaigns. The report of the jewel theft led to a political backlash Tuesday, as Volodymyr Bondarenko of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, her group of lawmakers in the parliament, poked fun at both daughter and father. «Chernovetsky needs to immediately call up his favorite grandmas and grandpas so that they could sacrifice part of their pensions to buy Kristina back her jewels,» Bondarenko said in a statement.

 
According to          В соответствии, согласно…
Amid                     Среди, посреди
Backlash               Отрицательное последствие
Beneath                Под
Boast                    Хвастаться
Bolster                  Поддерживать
Break into (broke broken)    Вломиться, проникнуть
Chandelier            Люстра
Charity                  Благотворительность
Completely            Полностью
Confirm                 Подтверждать
Consider                Принимать во внимание
Degree                   Диплом
Deny                      Отрицать
Description            Описание
Diner                     Обедающий
Earrings                 Серьги
Embarrassing         Смущающий
Embassy                 Посольство
Expensive              Дорогой
Flap                       Шлепок, удар
Fund (v)                 Финансировать
Fur                         Мех
Give (gave, given)  Дать, передать
Guest                     Гость
Immediately           Немедленно
Involve                   Касаться, затрагивать
Jewel                      Ювелирное изделие
Jewelry                   Драгоценности, ювелирные изделия
Joke                        Шутка
Lead (led, led)         Вести
Neckless                 Ожерелье
Pearl                       Жемчуг
Persistent               Постоянный
Poke fun                 Подшучивать над кем-либо
Previously               Ранее
Purse                      1) дамская сумочка, 2) кошелек
Recession               Спад, регресс, кризис
Remain                   Оставаться
Sacrifice                  Жертвовать
Scar                         Шрам
Steal (stole, stolen) Украсть
Struggle                  Бороться
Term                        Срок, продолжительность
Theft                       Кража
Valuable                  Ценный, дорогостоящий
Wealthy                   Богатый
Whereabouts           Местонахождение
Widespread             Широко распространенный
Worth                      Имеющий стоимость
 

Russia Sends Aid to Quake-Hit Chile²

President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the Emergency Situations Ministry to send two cargo planes loaded with humanitarian aid to Chile after the South American country was rocked by a powerful earthquake last week, a Kremlin spokesman told reporters Tuesday.

The first cargo plane carrying tents, blankets and electric power generators will arrive in Chile on Wednesday, and a second plane with other humanitarian aid will follow a day later, a ministry spokeswoman told The Moscow Times on Tuesday. «No Russian rescue teams will be sent there, only the aid,» she said.

More than 700 people have died and about 2 million have been displaced after the magnitude-8.8 earthquake hit the Chilean coast last Friday. No Russian citizens were killed or wounded during the quake, but the Russian Embassy in the capital of Santiago was slightly damaged. Russian rescue teams recently took part in a relief operation in Haiti after the Caribbean Island was devastated by a powerful earthquake in January.

 
Aid                           Помощь
Arrive                       Прибывать, приезжать
Blanket                    Шерстяное одеяло
Cargo                       Груз
Devastate                Опустошать,
Displace                   Вытеснять, выдавливать
Earthquake              Землетрясение
Follow                      Идти за, следовать
Load                         Грузить, нагружать
Order                        Приказывать, давать распоряжение
Powerful                   Мощный
Recently                    Недавно, в последнее время
Relief (n)                   Помощь
Rescue                      Спасать
Rock (v)                     Колебать, трясти
Slightly                      Незначительно, слегка
South – North           Юг     Север
Take part in (took, taken)  Принимать участие
Team                          Команда
Tell (told, told)           Говорить, сказать
Wound                       Ранить
 

Investigator Released in $15M Bribe Case³

A senior federal investigator has returned to work while under indictment for purportedly extorting $15 million from a local businessman, Interfax reported Thursday.

Andrei Grivtsov, in charge of high-priority cases with the Investigative Committee, was detained Jan. 15 on suspicion of soliciting the enormous bribe from Vladimir Palikhata, head of Rosenergomash, a leading electrical engineering manufacturer. A Moscow court, however, released Grivtsov from pretrial detention late Wednesday, Interfax reported.

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