Новости из прошлого на английском языке. ВЫПУСК №6

Air Rage Woman in Court

BANGOR, Maine – A Russian-born woman who purportedly consumed prescription drugs, wine and liquid soap then clashed with members of the flight crew on a London-bound jetliner has waived a bail hearing.

Galina Rusanova, a Russian-born artist who lives in London, appeared briefly in U.S. District Court on Monday before being returned to jail.

Rusanova faces federal charges of assault and interference with a flight crew.

Prosecutors say Rusanova, 54, punched and kicked attendants and began «snapping like a dog» while trying to bite a crew member’s leg.

The FBI said she had gone to Los Angeles to visit a man she met over the Internet and was returning Wednesday when her flight on Chicago-based United Airlines was diverted to Bangor.[7 - «The Moscow Times» 2009 год, AP.]

Appear                           Появляться
Assault                           Оскорбление, нападение
Attendant                       Стюард
Bail                                 Залог
Bite (bit, bitten)              Кусать
Bound                             Связанный
Briefly                             Коротко
Clash                               Сталкиваться
Consume                         Потреблять, поглощать
Divert                              Направлять в другую сторону
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)      ФБР
Hearing                           Слушание
Interference                    Вмешательство
Jail                                  Тюрьма
Kick                                 Пинать, ударять ногой
Prescription                     Рецепт
Punch                              Нанести удар кулаком
Rage                                Бешенство, гнев, ярость
Return                             Возвращаться
Snap                                Лязгать, щелкать
Waive                              Отказываться

Corruption On the Rise

Policemen, teachers and doctors are the country’s top bribe takers, ahead of bureaucrats, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika said in a new report, Vedomosti reported Tuesday.

Prosecutors sent 28,451 corruption cases to court last year, up 5.2 percent from 2007, Chaika said in the report, which is to be presented to the Federation Council on May 13.

«Corruption has been escalating over the last 10 years at every level of legal and government administration,» Chaika said in the report, Vedomosti reported.

Eighty percent of those charged with bribery took less than 30,000 rubles, ($900), the report said.[8 - «The Moscow Times» 2009 год]

Ahead                           Впереди
Bribe                             Взятка
Court                             Суд
Legal                             Юридический, правовой
Level                             Уровень
On the rise                    На подъеме

Cop Charged in Rampage

Moscow police officer Denis Yevsyukov has been charged with multiple homicide for his rampage in a local supermarket last week in which he shot nine people, killing three, the Investigative Committee said Tuesday.

Authorities say Yevsyukov, head of a police precinct in southern Moscow, shot dead a cab driver and then walked into a supermarket where he shot eight more killing two. The investigation is continuing, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

If convicted, Yevsyukov faces up to life in prison.[9 - «The Moscow Times» 2009 год]

Charge with                  Обвинять
Convict                          Признавать виновным
Homicide                      Убийство
Investigative Committee               Следственный комитет
Police precinct              Полицейский участок
Rampage                       Буйство, ярость
Shoot (shot, shot)          Стрелять

Family Found Dead in Car

A senior regional police official was found dead with his wife and two young children in a partly burned car peppered with bullet holes near Rostov-on-Don, RIA-Novosti reported Wednesday.

It was not clear what the official, identified as a head of the special police unit SOBR from Nizhny Novgorod, was doing in the area with his family. The report said the children were born in 1998 and 2002. Investigators have determined that a Kalashnikov rifle was used to fire on the car and the attackers then set the vehicle on fire. But somehow the fire did not spread,» a police spokesman told RIA-Novosti.[10 - «The Moscow Times» 2009 год]

Area                               Зона, область
Bullet                             Пуля
Burn                               Гореть
Determine                      Определять, выносить решение
Find (found, found)        Находить
Hole                               Отверстие, дыра
Investigator                    Следователь
Senior                             Вышестоящий
Set on fire                       Поджигать
Spread                            Распространяться
Vehicle                            Транспортное средство

Police Shoot Suspected Thief

A police officer shot dead a suspected car thief at around 6 a.m. Wednesday in northern Moscow after the suspect attacked him with a hammer, Interfax reported.