- •М инистерство образования и науки Российской Федерации южно-уральский государственный университет
- •Text 2 Вопросы народонаселения
- •Text 3 factors of poverty
- •Text 4 Marry your like
- •Text 5 По данным опроса
- •Text 7 Вопрос о положении женщин
- •Text 8 Aids is back on message
- •Text 10 The Second Stage
- •Texts for sight translation Text 1 Russia facing difficult social problems
- •Text 5 Feeling wanted
- •Text 7 Aids in Russia
- •Ecology
- •Vocabulary
- •Texts for written translation Text 1 The Greenhouse Effect
- •Text 2 Now What?
- •Text 4 The deadliest place on Earth
- •Text 5 Climate change issue shows how little we care about our planet
- •Text 6 Rapid human population growth spells more trouble for environment
- •Text 7 Could power plants of the future produce zero emissions?
- •Text 8 Climate and the rise of men
- •Texts for sight translation Text 1
- •Is climate change really inevitable?
- •Text 2 Ecological problems - True crisis of humanity
- •Text 3 Clean energy - Earth's only chance against global warming
- •Text 4 Wildlife management - Definition and its main role
- •Text 5 Report suggests slowdown in co2 emissions rise
- •2010 Showing record temperatures
- •Education General vocabulary
- •Texts for written translation Text 1 The Bologna process
- •Text 2 Что такое "Болонский процесс"?
- •Text 3 Universities go to market
- •Is college worth it? Too many degrees are a waste of money. The return on higher education would be much better if college were cheaper
- •Text 5 Есть мнение
- •Text 6 Rooting out student cheats
- •Text 7 а заграница лучше
- •Text 8 Examinations for sale
- •Text 9 Язык до карьеры доведет
- •Text 10 Another country
- •Texts for sight translation Text 1 Murphy’s law
- •Text 2 British Students Protest Tuition Hikes
- •Text 3 Portrait of the student as a young swot
- •Text 4 University today
- •Vocabulary
- •Investigation
- •Texts for written translation Text 1 Crime and Punishment
- •Text 2 Defiant Khodorkovsky denies all charges
- •Text 3 Ирония судьбы
- •Text 5 Война ведь
- •Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon
- •Text 9 Трагедия в церкви
- •Text 10 Down with the Death Penalty
- •Texts for sight translation Text 1 Kholodov Appeal Rejected
- •Text 2 Human trafficking and slave trade
- •Text 3 Attorney jailed in Spanish probe
- •Text 4 Too immature for the death penalty?
- •Text 5 An end to killing kids
- •Mass Media
- •Texts for written translation Text 1 Russian Television in the era of managed media
- •Text 2 The golden years
- •Text 3 The nineties
- •Text 4 Today
- •Text 5 Как сделать новости правильными Text 6
- •Text 7 San Francisco center keeps muckraking alive
- •Text 8 The center for investigative reporting
- •Text 9 Новый жанр публицистики
- •Text 10 When Love Backfires
- •Texts for sight translation Text 1 Overview
- •Text 2 To join the elite it’s tv that counts
- •Text 3 Sweden Pushes Ban on Children’s Ads
- •Science
- •Vocabulary
- •Text 4 The New Role of Microbes in Bio-Fuel Production
- •Text 5 Scientists Build a Custom Chromosome
- •Text 6 Scientists Revisit Power from Potatoes
- •Text 7 New Earth-Size Planet Found
- •Text 8 Male or female? First sex-determining genes appeared in mammals some 180 million years ago
- •Texts for sight translation Text 1
- •Text 2 Briton, Japanese Share Nobel Prize for Medicine
- •Text 3 Google Plans New Solar Mirror Technology
Texts for sight translation Text 1 Overview
In recent years the Kremlin has secured greater control over the country’s main national TV' networks — Channel One, RTR and NTV. Critics say independent reporting has suffered as a result.
Bringing court cases against two of the country’s biggest tycoons, Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, and acting through the industrial groups Gazprom and Lukoil, the Kremlin wrested control of NTV in 2001 and ordered the closure of TV-6 in January 2002. TV-6 was replaced by TVS, which soldiered on as Russia’s only privately-owned national network until the authorities pulled the plug in June 2003, officially for financial reasons.
Russia’s TV market is highly competitive; state-owned or influenced TV networks have the largest audiences. Hundreds of radio stations crowd the dial; traditional state-run networks compete with music-based commercial FM stations.
The conflict in Chechnya has been blamed for government attacks on press freedom. Journalists have been killed in Chechnya while others have disappeared or have been abducted.
In Moscow and elsewhere, journalists have been harassed or physically abused. Journalists investigating the affairs of the political and corporate elite are said to be particularly at risk of intimidation.
Free coverage of the 2003 parliamentary elections was said by the media watchdog Reporters Without Borders to have been “obstructed” by the authorities. The top state TV networks had “openly backed” President Putin’s party, it added. (The Economist online)
Text 2 To join the elite it’s tv that counts
It’s not how powerful you are but how much coverage you get on television.
That was the finding of a recent opinion poll that asked Russians across the country to name the most influential personalities in politics, business, culture and science.
Unsurprisingly, respondents readily picked President Vladimir Putin as the most powerful politician and pop diva Alla Pugacheva as the leading culture figure.
But their selections for the business elite essentially turned into a hate list topped by Unified Energy Systems chief Anatoly Chubais.
Many respondents were unable to name a single scientist, leading to a top-10 list that bunched together Nobel prize winners with dead scientists, television hosts and a hostage negotiator.
The sometimes startling answers are a direct result of television, which is the sole information source for many people these days, said Irina Palilova, a sociologist with the Levada center, the independent polling agency that carried out the survey.
“This poll reflects that people just don’t understand what the elite is and can only come up with names of figures who are popular in the media”, said Olga Kryshtanovskaya, head of the Center for the Study of the Elite in the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“Members of the elite are those who rule and decide, but the public knows little about those people”, she said.
As such, Putin was followed on the list of the political elite by ultranationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whose fist-waving antics are often shown on television.Third place went to Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, whose complaints about government social reforms got significant television coverage in January, when the poll was conducted. Also on the list were State Duma speaker Doris Gryzlov (4), liberal politician Irina Khakamada (5), Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov (7), and one-time political heavyweights Yabloko leader Grigiry Yavlinsky (9) and Mayor Yuri Luzhkov (10).
After Pugacheva, the list of cultural figures included Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov, crooner Iosif Kobzon, comedian Yevgeny Petrosyan and pop singer Nikolai Baskov. Not a single writer, artist or philosopher made it into the cultural top 10. (The Moscow Times, by Nabi Abdullaev, March 15, 2005)