Audio Drill: Viktor Suvorov: Espionage and Literature
Lesson Brief
Radio Freedom (via Sound Cloud)
For Tuesday's set, you'll be listening to a short podcast from Radio Freedom's presenter Igor Pomerantsev. He interview's a Russian spy fiction writer named Viktor Suvorov who currently lives in exile in the United Kingdom. They discuss Viktor's previous job as a foreign intelligence officer, his defection to the U.K., the inspiration for his writing, his views on western spy writers, and much more. Note: there is not a written transcription of the interview, it is just audio.
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- astonishing, amazing, surprising
- удивительный
- inspiration
- вдохновение
- to enjoy (oneself), to be delighted [intransitive]
- наслаждаться, насладиться
- wolf
- волк
- to suppress, to inhibit, to repress, to put down
- подавлять, подавить что-то, кого-то
- part-time student
- заочник
- horrifying, horrible (poor quality or extreme in colloquial meaning)
- жуткий
- placed, located
- размещённый
- limited, bounded, restricted
- ограниченный
- excitement, excitation, agitation
- возбуждение