V. Match the combinations of phrasal verbs with their meanings. Find their realization in the texts given above and translate them into Russian.
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IV. Match the notions with their definitions.
| 1. to remove a) to cherish secretly 2. to enmesh b) to make valid again 3. to dilute c) to weaken, to water down 4. to breach d) to eliminate 5. to harbour e) to catch as if in a net 6. to revive f) to break through, to make gap in |
1. To run out of to get out of something, to leave, to avoid
2. To come up to arise
3. To give in to establish, to arrange in a state in which something can be used
4. To get rid of to admit defeat, yield
5. To set up to increase
6. To step up to come to the end
VI. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian/Russian:
1. A week after the bloody climax of the siege at a school in North Ossetia, where more than 1,000 children, teachers and parents were taken hostage, investigators are still piecing together what happened.
2. In the ensuing panic many of the hostages tried to flee and the militants opened fire on them.
3. Russian Special Forces then moved into the school to try to save the hostages.
4. Surviving hostages have told journalists that the attackers told them how they had bribed their way through police checkpoints to reach Beslan.
5. Confusion reigns over the identity of the group who seized the school in North Ossetia taking hostage more than 1,000 children and their parents and teachers.
6. The Russian version says the hostage-takers were a multi-national group linked to the radical Chechen rebel commanders Shamil Basayev and Doku Umarov, funded by al-Qaeda.
7. President Putin will have a good defence if he can blame the hostage-takers. He might argue that with such people there can be no compromise and that they must be faced and defeated. Certainly, the taking of children as hostages will have lost the Chechens rebels international sympathy.
8. This month the funeral marches played in memory of the victims of terrorism seem to accompany the funeral of Russian democracy.
VII. Translate the following sentences into English:
Министерство иностранных дел категорически отклоняет попытки российского государства возложить ответственность за захват заложников в школе Беслана (Северная Осетия) на руководство чеченской республики Ичкерия. Президент Масхадов и военное командование Чечни решительно осуждают формы проявления терроризма. Не важно, кто стоит за захватом в заложники детей в Беслане, мы решительно осуждаем данный теракт и присоединяемся к требованию Совета Безопасности ООН освободить заложников. В тоже время мы глубоко сожалеем о том, что действия российского правительства, приведшие к уничтожению 42 тыс. чеченских детей не были подвергнуты осуждению со стороны Совета Безопасности ООН. На протяжении 10 лет Россия уничтожала чеченский народ на глазах всего человечества, используя при этом грубые средства государственного терроризма и геноцид. Совет Безопасности ООН и другие международные организации, центральные правительства должны либо признать Россию ответственной за массовые систематические убийства в Чечне, либо признать лицемерие в отношении происходящего геноцида чеченского народа со стороны России.
VIII. Evaluate the following statements:
1. “If there is a renewed peace process, the radical elements will probably fight even harder to
destroy it - there could be even more atrocities “
2. “The problem is that the Chechens fight among themselves and there is nobody who can
speak for a majority. If there is a renewed peace process, the radical elements will probably
fight even harder to destroy it. There could be even more atrocities.
3."In the long run, the question of Russia simply withdrawing from Chechnya might come up,
but it is too early for that and that would be the hardest thing for Putin to do since his own
reputation would be at stake."
Sean McGough
Birmingham University