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      Новости для сборника подобраны из газеты «The Moscow Times» 2010 год

      Daughter of Kiev Mayor Reports $5.5 Million Worth of Jewelry Stolen From Her Purse in Paris1

      PARIS – The daughter of Kiev’s mayor told police that she was robbed of 4 million euros ($5.5 million) worth of jewelry as she traveled by car from Charles de Gaulle airport to the French capital, Paris police said Tuesday.

      A spokesman for her wealthy father, however, immediately denied the report, which could be embarrassing considering that his daughter heads a charity organization funded by his own city government and many Ukrainians are struggling amid a widespread recession. A Paris police official said Kristina Chernovetska reported that a man broke into her luxury car Monday as it stopped on a highway north of Paris, then stole her purse. Chernovetska reported the incident to authorities and said the purse contained valuable rings and earrings, the official said. The official was not authorized to be named according to police policy and gave no further description of the jewelry. But a spokesman for Kiev Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky denied that there was a robbery. «This is somebody’s bad joke. We completely deny these reports about a robbery. There was no robbery,» spokeswoman Marta Hrymska said.

      Chernovetsky was one of the first banking magnates in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union and sold his Pravex Bank for 493 million euros to Italy’s lntesa Sanpaolo in June 2008. His term as mayor since 2006 has been marked by persistent corruption scandals, and he has often boasted of his daughter’s charity work to bolster his scarred public image. This would be the first public flap involving Kristina.

      French police said they contacted the Ukrainian Embassy about the incident, but the embassy would not comment on it Tuesday. Hrymska insisted that Chernovetska was in Kiev on Tuesday, but her whereabouts remained unknown. A receptionist at the luxury George V hotel just off the Champs-Elysees confirmed that a «Christina» Chernovetska was registered, but it was not clear whether that was the same person. At the George V, the least expensive room is 750 euros ($1,025) a night. Luxury limousines lined up in front of the hotel for guests in furs and designer sunglasses, while diners inside lunched beneath crystal chandeliers. Among goods on sale at the George V are 100,000 euro ($136,700) pearl necklaces.

      Chernovetska, 30, has degrees in law and economics, and she heads the charity organization Luchshy Dom, or «Best House,» a home for poor older people funded by the city of Kiev. She has also previously worked on her father’s political campaigns. The report of the jewel theft led to a political backlash Tuesday, as Volodymyr Bondarenko of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, her group of lawmakers in the parliament, poked fun at both daughter and father. «Chernovetsky needs to immediately call up his favorite grandmas and grandpas so that they could sacrifice part of their pensions to buy Kristina back her jewels,» Bondarenko said in a statement.

      According to          В соответствии, согласно…

      Amid                     Среди, посреди

      Backlash               Отрицательное последствие

      Beneath                Под

      Boast                    Хвастаться

      Bolster                  Поддерживать

      Break into (broke broken)    Вломиться, проникнуть

      Chandelier            Люстра

      Charity                  Благотворительность

      Completely            Полностью

      Confirm                 Подтверждать

      Consider                Принимать во внимание

      Degree                   Диплом

      Deny                      Отрицать

      Description            Описание

      Diner                     Обедающий

      Earrings                 Серьги

      Embarrassing         Смущающий

      Embassy                 Посольство

      Expensive              Дорогой

      Flap                       Шлепок, удар

      Fund (v)                 Финансировать

      Fur                         Мех

      Give (gave, given)  Дать, передать

      Guest                     Гость

      Immediately           Немедленно

      Involve                   Касаться, затрагивать

      Jewel                      Ювелирное изделие

      Jewelry                   Драгоценности, ювелирные изделия

      Joke                        Шутка

      Lead (led, led)         Вести

      Neckless                 Ожерелье

      Pearl                       Жемчуг

      Persistent               Постоянный

      Poke fun                 Подшучивать над кем-либо

      Previously               Ранее

      Purse                      1) дамская сумочка, 2) кошелек

      Recession               Спад, регресс, кризис

      Remain                   Оставаться

      Sacrifice                  Жертвовать

      Scar                         Шрам

      Steal (stole, stolen) Украсть

      Struggle                  Бороться

      Term                        Срок, продолжительность

      Theft                       Кража

      Valuable                  Ценный, дорогостоящий

      Wealthy                   Богатый

      Whereabouts           Местонахождение

      Widespread             Широко распространенный

      Worth                      Имеющий стоимость

      Russia Sends Aid to Quake-Hit Chile2

      President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the Emergency Situations Ministry to send two cargo planes loaded with humanitarian aid to Chile after the South American country was rocked by a powerful earthquake last week, a Kremlin spokesman told reporters Tuesday.

      The first cargo plane carrying tents, blankets and electric power generators will arrive in Chile on Wednesday, and a second plane with other humanitarian aid will follow a day later, a ministry spokeswoman told The Moscow Times on Tuesday. «No Russian rescue teams will be sent there, only the aid,» she said.

      More than 700 people have died and about 2 million have been displaced after the magnitude-8.8 earthquake hit the Chilean coast last Friday. No Russian citizens were killed or wounded during the quake, but the Russian Embassy in the capital of Santiago was slightly damaged. Russian rescue teams recently took part in a relief operation in Haiti after the Caribbean Island was devastated by a powerful earthquake in January.

      Aid 

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