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Английский язык для магистратуры
R
ussia: a Part of The W
orld or...
14. The European Union’s neighbourhood policy is failing ___ regard ___ Russia. This is because 
Russia simply doesn’t see itself ___ a country in Europe’s neighbourhood, but ___ a historical 
great power ___ its own right.
15. The Russian Foreign Ministry attributed the agreement to trade 10 Russian agents ___ four 
men imprisoned in Russia ___ alleged contacts ___ Western intelligence agencies ___ the 
warming trend ___ Washington and Moscow.
16. There’s a reason ___ the popular perception that Russians like their drink: The average Russian 
citizen consumes 18 liters of pure alcohol per year, compared ___ about 11 liters per year in 
Western Europe. 
17. When U.S. President Harry S. Truman informed Stalin ___ the weapons, he was surprised ___ how 
calmly Stalin took the news and thought that Stalin had not understood what he had told him.
Ex. 27. Articles with proper nouns are generally used without 
articles. Which of the rules a-d explain the use of the articles 
underlined in the sentences below?
a. a proper noun used as an attribute to another noun;
b. a proper noun with a descriptive attribute highlighting a certain, usu. not-permanent/ac-
quired, feature or state of that proper noun;
c. a proper noun with a limiting attribute (= that very)
d. a proper noun used to make a comparison with or to emphasize resemblance to a well-known 
person.
1. Decembrist leaders were, for the most part, highly educated and harbored hopes of a re-
formed Russia after Alexander I returned from the 1815 Congress of Vienna.
2. For a generation knowing only Soviet Russia, memories of the Russia of the Tsars are clouded 
either by negative propaganda or by romantic illusions.
3. It is unwise to assume that a Russia 
that is back on its feet will be comfortable standing 
apart from the West.
4. Russia was governed more effectively under an assertive Putin than under a more pluralistic 
but chaotic Yeltsin.
5. Some analysts posit that the creation of a Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan customs union repre-
sents Russia’s attempt to forge closer political ties with the post-Soviet states through eco-
nomic integration.
6. The Jacobins were ably led by Maximilien Robespierre, the Lenin of the French Revolution.
7. The Lithuanians owed much to the Gorbachev of 1985–1988 for their own success in estab-
lishing an independent state.
8. The Russia that Medvedev inherited in 2008 was already by any conventional measure a “mod-
ern” society — urban, industrial, and educated.
Ex. 28. Fill in the gaps with an appropriate article where necessary. 
Use similar patterns to make up sentences about the country/
region you specialize in.
1. “Never has there been ___ Russia less imperialist, less militarized, less threatening to its neigh-
bors and the world, and more susceptible to the Western ideals than ___ Russia we see today 
(written in 1998). 

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