Party of Regions Confirms the Death of Viktor Yanukovych Jr.
Lesson Brief
BBC Russian Service
The son of former-Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, died on Sunday while on an excursion around Lake Baikal. Viktor Viktorovich Yanukovych drown when the car he was in broke through the ice. By the time he was able to unfasten his seat belt, he was unable to force the door open and escape.
This set features several useful verbs that use prefixes to subtly change the meaning of the root verb ex. пристёгиваться and отстёгиваться). Pay attention to these as many Russian verbs are changed by changing the prefix.
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- death, doom
- гибель
- to place, to dispose, to arrange
- располагать, расположить
- area of water (on the globe)
- акватория
- private trip
- частная поездка
- mountainous
- гористый
- to find, to detect, to discover
- обнаруживать, обнаружить
- only (adv.)
- лишь
- to refute, to disprove
- опровергать, опровергнуть
- sincerely, genuinely
- искренне
- to be lost in thought, to think deeply
- задумываться, задуматься