Оглавление

1. Новости из прошлого на английском языке
2. ТАКИМИ РАЗНЫМИ БЫЛИ НОВОСТИ В 2010 И 2011 ГОДУ
   1. CAMERON SINKS FOR BIRTHDAY
   2. FSB Detains Romanian «Spy»
   3. Ship Carrying 111 Tourists Collides With Barge
   4. Interview with Robert De Niro
   5. Reputed Crime Boss Survives Shooting
   6. Court Marshals to Seize Puppies Over Debt
   7. Foster Child Survives Flight Inside Landing Gear
   8. Chernomyrdin Is Laid to Rest
   9. Luzhkov Says His Family Not Safe in Moscow
   10. Cameroon «Magicians» Detained
   11. Fighter Jets Sold for $5 in Fraud Scheme
   12. Gagarin Statue to Go Up in London
   13. Beloved Actress Gurchenko Dies at 75
   14. Burglars leave 500 rubles to help their victim
   15. Storms strike in Moscow
   16. Officers to Face Dismissal for Owning Property Overseas
   17. Military to charge for uniforms
   18. Putin Says His German Was Rusty as KGB Agent
   19. Fugitive Ex-Official Charged With $135M Embezzlement
   20. Luzhkov Denied Residency in Austria
   21. Procter & Gamble Accused of Unsafe Working Environment
   22. Anti-Snow Plan Ditched
   23. English Language to Rule Skies
   24. Fradkov Puts Stability Over Success
   25. 2 Tourist-Eating Shark Suspects Capture
   26. Moscow metro welcomes unexpected passenger
   27. Fox Shoots Hunter
   28. Woman on metro injured by exploding lamp
   29. Ex-Kremlin Official Jailed for Fraud
   30. Moscow Police Find «Underground Town» of Illegal Immigrants
   31. «Traitor» Charged in U.S. Spy Scandal
   32. Underused Thoroughfare Discovered in Moscow

ТАКИМИ РАЗНЫМИ БЫЛИ НОВОСТИ В 2010 И 2011 ГОДУ

CAMERON SINKS FOR BIRTHDAY

«Titanic» director James Cameron spent his birthday underwater. Cameron, who turned 56 on Monday, dived beneath the surface of the world’s deepest lake in a submersible he used to film the wreck of the Titanic, the Foundation for the Preservation of Lake Baikal said.

Cameron boarded the Mir-1 submersible and spent a few hours in Lake Baikal’s waters, the Russian-based group said. The Mir-1, less than 8 meters long, is one of two submersibles Cameron used to film the Titanic in preparation for the 1997 blockbuster.

Russia used the vessel in 2007 to plant a Russian flag on the sea floor near the North Pole. On Monday, it was piloted by Anatoly Sagalevich, director of the technical council of the preservation foundation, who invited Cameron on his first visit to Lake Baikal and gave him a hardy «hydronaut’s» watch. The sickle-shaped lake in Siberia, some 5,000 kilometers east of Moscow, is the world’s oldest and deepest lake, according to UNESCO, which lists it as a World Heritage Site. It holds one-fifth of the world’s unfrozen fresh water. Ecologists say the 25 million-year-old lake, which reaches a depth of 1,637 meters, harbors 1,500 plant and animal species, including a unique freshwater seal.[1]

Director             Режиссер

Dive                   Нырять

Harbor               Содержать, укрывать

Hardy hydronaut’s watch      Водонепроницаемые часы

Hold (held, held) Держать, содержать

Invite                  Приглашать

Plant                   Устанавливать

Plant and animal species   Виды растений и животных

Reach                  Достигать

Sea floor             Морское дно

Seal                    Тюлень

Sickle-shaped lake         Серповидное озеро

Sink (sank, sank)          1) погружаться, 2) тонуть

Spend (spent, spent)       Проводить время

Submersible       Подводный аппарат

[1] Фрагмент взят из газеты «The Moscow Times» 2010 год

FSB Detains Romanian «Spy»

The Federal Security Service said a Romanian diplomat was caught spying Monday and given 48 hours to leave the country.

Gabriel Grecu, first secretary in the political department of the Romanian Embassy in Moscow, was detained while trying to obtain secret military information from a Russian citizen, the FSB said in a statement. «Espionage equipment seized from the agent fully reveals his hostile activities against Russia,» the statement said.

Russia has made a formal protest to the Romanian government about Grecu’s activities and declared him persona non grata, the FSB said.

The Romanian Embassy in Moscow and Romania’s Foreign Ministry in Bucharest both declined to comment on the matter. Relations between Russia and Romania are cool. Romania joined NATO in 2004, and it has annoyed Russia by supporting the pro-European government in Moldova, a former Soviet republic where two-thirds of the population speaks Romanian. In June, Moldova ordered Russia to withdraw 1,500 troops who have been stationed in a separatist region of the country since the Soviet Union collapsed nearly two decades ago.[1]

Equipment     Оборудование

Fully               Полностью

Give (gave, given)    Давать

Hostile            Вражеский, враждебный

Join                 Присоединяться, вступать

Matter             Дело, вопрос

Obtain            Получать, добывать

Relations        Отношения

Reveal            Открывать, разоблачать

Seize              Завладевать, захватывать

[1] Фрагмент взят из газеты «The Moscow Times» 2010 год