Couple of questions...
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learn_russianWhat is the proper way to say that you're conducting research?
Делать исследование?
How do you express the idea of something consuming your life?
This paper is taking over/ eating my life.
My third question has absolutely nothing to do with language, but I'm really curious. What is the general Russian take on the Ukranian election situation?
Делать исследование?
How do you express the idea of something consuming your life?
This paper is taking over/ eating my life.
My third question has absolutely nothing to do with language, but I'm really curious. What is the general Russian take on the Ukranian election situation?
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Date: 2004-12-07 02:55 pm (UTC)2. I'm not sure what do you mean.
3. There is no general take - people are different.
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Date: 2004-12-07 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-07 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-07 03:33 pm (UTC)Also you can take a look here (http://www.rambler.ru/dict/enru/01/2c/38.shtml).
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Date: 2004-12-07 03:52 pm (UTC)Эта статья поглощает все мое время/силы.
Он полностью поглощен работой.
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Date: 2004-12-07 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-08 02:27 am (UTC)2. Поглощать, correct, thatnks
3. As
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Date: 2004-12-08 06:55 am (UTC)Surely, in Russia there is no general attitude towards the situation. But it looks like as if we are not indifferent to their events. Despite that Ukraine has ceased being a part of Russia and become a new state, we keep on thinking (and we are quite right) that Russians and Ukrainians are allied to each other: we speak virtually the same language, we have common history, many Russians have relatives and friends there, etc. (But here I must note that many of us (Russians and Ukrainians) doesn’t want to live now in one state).
It would seem that since we live separately, we, Russians, shouldn’t have an interest in their political problems. In a Russian newspaper, I’ve just read the following: “It’s ironic that several days before the Ukrainian elections, a TV presenter said: ‘No matter how interesting your program about Ukrainian election campaign is, the rating would be low, because this theme doesn’t attract many of people’ Today, when Ukraine seems to become a staple on every channel, we can hardly believe him.”
We see that there’s nothing to choose between both candidates, but for Ukrainians, to choose is the problem. They must vote, but their votes would be very likely not for one of them but against the other.
We realize the feelings of people who support Yushchenko’s and protest against their current government, because we are also not sold on ours.
And we understand people of South-East Ukraine who vote for Yanukovich, since they can’t accept a candidate supported by nationalists hostile to Russia, Russian culture, and Russian-speaking Ukrainians.
Though I don’t think Russians prefer one candidate to the other, our approximately general attitude towards candidate is that we dislike Yushchenko and his “fellow-bawlers”, and are indifferent to Yanukovich (as he would be very likely the same as Kuchma whom we dislike too).
This attitude comes from the fact that many of Russians (and our last elections have shown that) doesn’t like pro-Western liberal politicians, and that US campaigns behind (http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,15569,1360236,00.html) each political crisis annoys us more and more.
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:26 am (UTC)~ Stephanie
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Date: 2004-12-09 12:42 pm (UTC)I don't know how much help I'll be as a non native speaker myself, but yeah, definitely.