Как выжатый лимон: exhausted, tapped out, bushed (literally, "like a squeezed lemon)
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posted by zaina19 on June, 2005 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/3/2005 1:30 AM On Your Last Legs Friday, June 3, 2005 By Michele A. Berdy Как выжатый лимон: exhausted, tapped out, bushed (literally, "like a squeezed lemon) Ever been too pooped to pop? Ever been so pooped that the thought of popping -- or standing up, or talking or even taking off your clothes before collapsing in bed -- makes your head spin? If you need to express fatigue -- from mild to bone-numbing -- in Russian, you're in luck: There are plenty of verbs and expressions to choose from. The standard verb for being tired is уставать/ устать, but you can add intensifiers to taste. Мы работали с утра до ночи! Я так/безумно/жутко/ ужасно устал! (We worked from morning till night! I'm so/incredibly/terribly/awfully tired!) The adjective усталый can be applied to any body part that shows fatigue: " тебя усталый вид. (You look tired; literally, "have a tired appearance.") Similarly, " тебя усталые глаза. (Your eyes look tired.) On the fatigue-o-meter, утомляться is a ... >> full
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Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front
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Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/3/2005 1:36 AM Houghton Mifflin Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front By Constantine Pleshakov Houghton Mifflin 326 Pages. $26 Wishing the War Away June 3 - 9, 2005 Hitler ordered his forces to invade, but it was Stalin who left the Soviet Union unprepared. Constantine Pleshakov reassigns blame for one of the bloodiest routs in history. By Richard Lourie Published: June 3, 2005 To celebrate the Soviet victory in World War II is also to celebrate its victor, Josef Stalin. But 60 years after the fact, questions remain about Stalin's role in that victory. How much damage had his recent purge of Red Army officers done to the Soviet Union's military strength? Why did he seem to still trust Adolf Hitler in June 1941 when his spies were informing him of imminent invasion? And just how badly did he act ... >> full
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Russia-Backed Mufti of Chechnya Quits After Years as Spiritual Head
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/5/2005 2:58 AM Russia-Backed Mufti of Chechnya Quits After Years as Spiritual Head Shamayev says he can no longer serve as violence continues and civilians suffer. He still supports remaining within Russia and limited autonomy. By Kim Murphy Times Staff Writer June 5, 2005 MOSCOW — It was shortly after midnight on June 26, 2003, when Akhmad Shamayev began to understand the price he would pay to act as the Moscow-backed Muslim spiritual leader of war-torn Chechnya. Tiptoeing so quietly that no one heard them, several gunmen entered the home of a 72-year-old relative of the mufti and shot him to death in his bed. The price became almost unbearable an hour later. Shamayev's 22-year-old son, Said-Ibragim, grabbed three friends and relatives, jumped into a car, and raced after the killers down the only road leading out of the village. Their bodies were found the next day. "This was the way they wanted to get rid of me…. He was my cherished child," Shamayev said. "He was tortured. His ... >> full
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SOLZHENITSYN SAYS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/8/2005 2:33 AM SOLZHENITSYN SAYS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY 05.06.2005 - 00:08:30 ´´I have said many times that we have never had anything like democracy since the day that Gorbachev came to power, to say nothing about before that,´´ Solzhenitsyn said. He criticized the United States for ´´attempting to impose its vision of democracy´´ on the world. SOLZHENITSYN SAYS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY Nobel Prize for literature laureate and former Soviet political prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on 5 June gave his first interview in three years to RTR television. Solzhenitsyn said that he does not understand why people are talking about a so called ´´assault on democracy in Russia.´´ ´´I have said many times that we have never had anything like democracy since the day that Gorbachev came to power, to say nothing about before that,´´ Solzhenitsyn said. He sharply criticized the country´s political institutions and its policies over the last 15 years, saying that the government ´´robbed the people of ... >> full
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Editor Vows No Bias on Russia Today
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rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/8/2005 4:31 AM Editor Vows No Bias on Russia Today By Oksana Yablokova Staff Writer Itar-Tass Russia Today editor Simonyan, left, and RIA-Novosti chief Svetlana Mironyuk at a news conference Tuesday. The organizers of Russia Today, the English-language satellite television channel the government plans to launch, said Tuesday that it would receive state funding but insisted that it would be independent of the Kremlin. The channel's newly appointed editor, Margarita Simonyan, a former Kremlin pool correspondent for Rossia state television, said the government planned to spend about $30 million from the federal budget this year and a similar amount next year to launch the channel, which would report world news from a Russian perspective. "We will not cover Russian news specifically," Simonyan, 25, told a news conference Tuesday. "We will be reporting world news and will be distinguished by our Russian approach to this news." Both Simonyan and Mikhail Seslavinsky, head of the Federal Press and Mass Media Agency, said that the presidential administration would not interfere ... >> full
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