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Д. А. Крячков
UNIT VIII
2. NATO’s strategy for the next few years and its relations with other international organizations 
were on the agenda of a session of ___ Russia — NATO Council in Brussels. 
3. As president, Putin presided over ___ Russia that was more assertive on the world stage than 
in the 1990s.
4. How did ___ Russia of the 1990s become ___ Russia of today? 
5. He purports to be ___ Russia expert, but doesn’t speak the language. 
6. Europe has long desired ___ Russia that is both stable and governed by a democratic rule of law.
7. In the long run, ___ Russia that tries to define its greatness in terms of spheres of influence, 
client states and forced fealty to ___ Moscow will fail.
8. It was not until after the Bolshevik takeover in 1917 and the appearance of Oswald Spengler’s 
The Decline of the West (1918–22) that there was there any serious talk in ___ Russia of ___ 
awakened, vital Russia influencing ___ Western Europe rather than vice-versa.
9. Many policy wonks in ___ West have been trying to resolve the question of how to handle ___ 
Russia that is rich with oil revenues and increasingly independent. 
10. Mr Medvedev was speaking at the end of ___ Russia-EU summit held against a background of 
deep divisions over security, trade and energy supplies.
11. Peter the Great turned ___ relatively backwards Muscovy state into ___ modernized Russia 
that could compete with other European powers.
12. Plato was ___ Einstein of Greece’s Golden Age and his work founded Western culture and science.
13. Some analysts believe that ___ Mr. Moussavi is ___ Gorbachev of Iran and will bring sweeping 
changes to the country.
14. ___ Boris Yeltsin who stood on the tank in front of the White House in 1991 became ___ Yeltsin 
who ordered the army to attack the White House.
15. There are few countries in ___ Europe who would prefer ___ stronger Russia. Most of the Eu-
ropean countries think that ___ weaker Russia is beneficial to ___ Europe. 
16. To those who know only ___ Moscow of the Soviet Union, the city today will look as foreign.
Ex. 29. Use the verbs in parentheses in the correct form.
Russia (to look)
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for its place in the world ever since the break up of the Soviet Union. (To