Новости из прошлого на английском языке. ВЫПУСК №6

Новости из прошлого на английском языке

ВЫПУСК №6

Cоставитель

 Анна Пигарёва

ISBN 978-5-4498-8221-9 (т. 6)

ISBN 978-5-0050-5038-0

Создано в интеллектуальной издательской системе Ridero

Криминальное чтиво со словарем

MOTHER, DAUGHTER FACE 10 YEARS FOR STUN-GUN ROBBERY

By Natalya Krainova

Staff writer

An elderly Moscow woman and her daughter are facing up to 10 years in prison for purportedly using a stun device to rob a company offering a knitting course in which the daughter had enrolled, city police said.

The daughter paid 10,000 rubles ($360) for the knitting classes but became disenchanted with the course and demanded a refund, police said in a statement.

«We have information that they weren’t satisfied with the quality of teaching,» police spokesman Anatoly Lastovetsky said of the mother and daughter.

Police identified the two women only by their first names and the first initial of their last names: Svetlana A., 35, and Iraida A., 73.

With the aim of retrieving Svetlana’s money, the two women went to the office of the company running the knitting courses on 1st Ulitsa Yamskogo Polya, near the Belorusskaya metro station in northern Moscow.

The company secretary asked the women to draw up a written request for a refund addressed to the company’s director, a common requirement for reimbursement in Russia.

The two women, however, demanded their money back immediately. After the secretary refused, the elderly woman pulled an electric-shock device from her purse and stunned the employee with the device, police said.

The two women then snatched the secretary’s purse, which contained 34,000 rubles ($1,200), and fled the office, according to police.

After recovering from the electric shock, the secretary reported the incident to police, who detained the two suspects at their apartment shortly thereafter.

Police opened a robbery investigation Thursday, the city police said.

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  «The Moscow Times» 2009 год

Aim                                Цель

Common                        Общепринятый

Demand (v)                    Требовать

Detain                            Задерживать

Device                            Прибор, устройство

Disenchant                     Освобождаться от чар

Draw up                         Составлять документ

Enroll                             Записываться, зачисляться

Face up 10 years in prison        Грозит 10 тюрьмы

Flee (fled, fled)               Убегать

Initial                              Начальная буква

Knitting course               Курс по вязанию

Purportedly                     Предположительно

Purse                               Дамская сумочка, кошелек

Recover                           Приходить в себя, выздоравливать

Refund                            Возврат суммы

Reimbursement              Компенсация

Request                          Просьба, требование

Requirement                   Необходимое условие

Retrieve                          Вынимать, возвращать

Rob                                 Грабить

Robbery                          Грабеж

Run the course               Проводить курс (занятия)

Snatch                            Вырывать, похищать

Stun                                Оглушать

Suspect (n)                      Подозреваемый

$100M Painting Stolen

KIEV – A painting worth as much as $100 million has been stolen from a museum in the Ukrainian port of Odessa.

Museum workers said they had repeatedly asked city authorities to modernize the security system. Police said the thieves bypassed an alarm by entering through a window.

Staff of the Museum of Western and Eastern Art said Friday that the painting – by Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and called «The Taking of Christ (Or the Kiss of Judas)» was found missing Thursday.

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  «The Moscow Times» 2009 год, AP.

Alarm                            Сигнал тревоги

Bypass (v)                      Обходить

Find (found, found)       Находить

Missing                         Потерявшийся

Security system            Система охраны

Steal (stole, stolen)       Украсть

Thief (thieves)               Вор

Worth                            Стоящий (о цене)

7 Dead in Japan After Killing Spree

TOKYO – A Japanese man rammed a truck into a crowd of shoppers, jumped out and went on a stabbing spree in Tokyo’s top electronics district Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding 10 others.

The deadly lunchtime assault paralyzed the Akihabara neighborhood, which is popular among the country’s cyber-wise youth. The killings were the latest in a series of grisly knifings that have stoked fears of rising crime in Japan.

A 25-year-old man, Tomohiro Kato, was apprehended in the attack. Local news reports initially said the man was a self-proclaimed mobster, but national media later said he was not.

«The suspect told police that he came to Akihabara to kill people,» said Jiro Akaogi, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

«He said he was tired of life. He said he was sick of everything,» Akaogi said.

The violence began when he crashed a rented, 2-ton truck into pedestrians. News reports said he jumped out and began stabbing the people he had knocked down with the truck and then turned on horrified onlookers.

Police confirmed seven deaths – six men and one woman – but they could not say wheth