Task Задание
Think (thought, thought) Думать
Track Следить
Unsuccessfully Неудачно, неуспешно
Vacate Освобождать
Court Marshals to Seize Puppies Over Debt
Court marshals have threatened to take what is most precious from a pensioner who has failed to pay a debt – her three Shar Pei pedigree puppies, they said Friday. The pensioner, whom court marshals did not identify, owes 350,000 rubles ($11,330) to an individual in her hometown in the Kamchatka region in the Far East. «If she does not fulfill her obligations within 10 days, the puppies will be sold by the Federal Agency for State Property Management,» the marshals said in a statement on their site, FSSPrus.ru.
In Kamchatka, Shar Pei puppies fetch 15,000 rubles ($485) each, news reports said. But the marshals said they would try sell them for 5,000 rubles to attract more potential buyers. They said the famously wrinkled Shar Pei puppies have been allowed for the time being to remain with the pensioner, who breeds them as her sole source of income because she has no property.6
Allow Разрешать
Attract Привлекать
Breed Разводить
Court Суд
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
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