Uber in Moscow Becomes “Official”
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San Francisco-based Uber and the Moscow transport authorities have reached an agreement on allowing the taxi service to work in Moscow. The two side carried out lengthy discussions but seem to have arrived at a settlement that works for both parties. Moscow authorities wanted the ability to see where the cars were working and will require them to have a license, just as any other official taxi drive does in Moscow. Uber, on the other hand, has asked the authorities to open up some parts of the MVD database to do background checks on drivers.
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- to expand, to widen [intransitive] (reflex.)
- расширяться, расшириться
- companion, interlocutor, someone involved in the dialogue/discussions
- собеседник
- revenue, earnings
- выручка
- criminal record, previous conviction
- судимость
- impersonal
- обезличенный
- track
- трек
- broadcast, transfer, transmission, gear
- передача
- delay, postponement
- отсрочка
- to levy, to raise, to collect (a fine, tariff, etc)
- взимать что-то
- prolonged, protracted
- затянувшийся