A Shortage of Spare Parts for the Moscow Metro
Lesson Brief
Радио Свобода
Workers on the Moscow Metro have come out stating that there is a shortage of spare parts for repairs on the metro. Despite the modernization of many trains on the metro, many of the older trains still use parts that were fabricated and produced in the Soviet Union.
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Click and Match
- trade union, labor union
- профсоюз
- shortage, deficit, a lack of
- нехватка
- service, maintenance
- обслуживание
- to hide, to conceal, to mask
- скрывать, скрыть что-нибудь
- dismissed, fired, discharged
- уволенный
- to communicate with, to chat with, "to rub shoulders with"
- общаться, пообщаться с кем-нибудь
- fear, dread
- боязнь
- costs, expenses
- расходы
- wire (n.)
- проволока
- spare, emergency, alternate (adj.)
- запасный