“Our Name – Boris Nemtsov” – Part 1
Lesson Brief
Радио Свобода
Two years ago today Russian activist, Boris Nemtsov, was shot in killed in Moscow. Nemtsov fought for an open and democratic Russia. He as gunned down on Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. There are people marching in memory of Nemtsov across Russia and the world.
Part 1 ends on the sentence beginning with "Novosibirsk"
Click and Match
- prisoner of conscience, political prisoner
- политзаключенный
- stretching, extension, bracing
- растяжка
- spontaneous, elemental (adj.)
- стихийный
- absent, in absentia (adj.)
- заочный
- attacker (n.)
- нападавший
- slogan, motto
- лозунг
- petition, motion (in court)
- ходатайство
- customer, client
- заказчик
- to shoot, to gun down
- застреливать, застрелить кого-нибудь
- route, itinerary
- маршрут