Svetlana Flemming - Colloquial Russian - The Next Step in Language Learning

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Exercise 11

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Answer these questions in the negative.

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1 Gde vy byĺi vhera´? 2 Ty kuda´-nibud; xodiĺ ve´herom? 3 Za 6

kogo´ vy golosovaĺi na vy´borax? 4 Hto vy deĺali u´trom? 5 U

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est; kaka´q-nibud; progra´mma? 6 U tebqést; brat, 9

sestra´? 7

Vy kogda´-nibud; he´m-nibud; iĺi ke´m-nibud;

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uvlekaĺis;? 8 O he¨m vy du´maete? 9 K kako´j paŕtii vy 1

prinadle'i´te? 10 S kem vy xodiĺi v kino´? 11 Hemuóna 2

udivlqétsq? 12 Na kom on 'eniĺsq?

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Exercise 12

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Translate into Russian.

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1 You cannot have a democratic society under a one-party system.

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Fortunately this system belongs to the past.

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2 The new movement ‘Unity’ would like to be the ruling party in 2

Russia, but it is unlikely to achieve this goal without allies.

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3 Having won a quarter of the votes in the parliamentary election, 4

the Communist Party began to work out a new programme of 5

action.

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4 Despite the fact that ‘Unity’ enjoyed enormous success during the 7

election, the Communist Party still came first.

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5 Unfortunately ‘Unity’ does not have any economic programme.

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6 The success of ‘Unity’ is explained by the fact that President Putin 30

gave his support to the movement. He actually advised the elec-1

torate to vote for them.

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7 Being the only party with its own electorate, the Communist Party 3

hopes to widen its influence.

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8 The mass media played a decisive role in the last election.

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Television succeeded in creating the myth of the popularity of the 6

‘Unity’ movement and many people believed it.

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9 Judging by the methods used during the election campaign, Russia 8

is still a long way from democracy.

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14 INTERNET

In this unit you will learn:

◗ about the internet in Russia

◗ some more information on word building

◗ verbs with prefixes

◗ how to differentiate between certain verbs

The Russian language net, popularly called Runet because its addresses typically end ‘.ru’, underwent massive expansion in 2000.

Only in the following year did legislation giving protection for intellectual property rights and providing the framework for e-commerce catch up with this boom. The web also occupies a role in the political life of Russia. Vladimir Putin had a sophisticated campaign website during his presidential campaign. Sites were also used in the Duma elections to wage negative campaigns against rivals, notably ex-Prime Minister Primakov and Moscow Mayor Luzhkov. The Russian Government has a regularly updated official web page at www.pravitelstvo.gov.ru. There are also a number of news sites including: strana.ru; vesti.ru; smi.ru; gazeta.ru and lenta.ru.

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Rossi´jskomu Interne´tu

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(Rune´tu) 10 let

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V Rossií sego´dnq boĺee 4 mln. akti´vnyx poĺ;zovatelej

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Interne´ta, to est; tex, kto v Set; postoqńno.

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Mosko´vskie poĺ;zovateli sostavlq´[t pq´tu[ hast; (o´kolo 0,9

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milliońa). Po dańnym G\lla´pa, Interne´tom v Moskve´

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e'emeśqhno poĺ;zu[tsq 935 ty

śqh helove´k. Vsemiŕnaq Pautińa

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oso´benno populqŕna sredi´

molode¨'i. Sa´moj znahi´tel;noj

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qvlqétsq auditoŕiq v voźraste ot 25 do 34 let (25%). Raste¨t i 5

hisloínterne´thikov staŕwe 55 let: za posle´dnie dva go´da ono´

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udvoílos;. @i´teli Interne´ta – \´to peredova´q hast; no´vogo 7