Not a Friend, and Not an Enemy, So…
Lesson Brief
Радио Свобода
Belorussian president, Alexander Lukashenko, was noticeably absent from the CSTO meeting in St. Petersburg this weekend. Lukashenko and Belarus have been trying to navigate a path that preserves the country's sovereignty and at the same time does not alienate itself completely from the Kremlin. This advanced level set is designated for both Tuesday and Wednesday.
Suggested Set: Lukashenko Denounces Nobel Prize Winner Svetlana Aleksievich
Click and Match
- feature, characteristic, peculiarity
- особенность
- personality, person, individual
- личность
- injustice, inequity
- несправедливость
- to rob, to loot
- грабить, ограбить что-нибудь, кого-нибудь
- distant/far-away arc
- "дальняя дуга"
- meeting, conference, session
- совещание
- espeecially
- сугубо
- thrust, lunge
- выпад
- kindling (n.)
- разжигание
- surveillance, supervisory (adj.)
- надзорный