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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Well, my little dictionary says требоваться means "to be needed, to be required," but I don't understand how exactly to use this word. I remember seeing it when I went to a closed Берёзка, but I only remember "магазин требуется" and I forgot the rest... care to reconstruct? Any sayings or something that goes along with this word?

I also read an article from a friend of mine (through livejournal). Took me about 2 hours to read it. I found it silly that I'm learning Russian yet have no clue about what's currently going on there. It was about the Хватит Путина situation and I wanted to know what the following groups are: Яблока (why is there an a at the end?), СПС, НБП, ЦАО.

And I just want a clarification on the following sentence: "Слово было предоставлено Алексею Радову, мужу активиски НБП Евгении Тараненко, арестованной 14 декабря за захват приёмной Путина." Did he TRY to capture Putin or did he actually succeed? Or am I just reading it incorrectly?

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[zloizloi.livejournal.com]

"магазину требуется продавец", for example - typical help-wanted ad for a shop.

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Oy. I feel like such an idiot. I went to the Берёзка and saw that and thought to myself "Hm... must be closed." Yes, I know what the word is for closed but I've also never seen the word for need or help like that. Oy.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

If it's closed, it's usually a ЗАКРЫТО sing :))

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking about that too, but then I'm like "So? That still doesn't mean it's not closed. Maybe the shop is being repaired? They're cleaning it? They just don't want us in? Eh... let me leave and spare myself any embarassment that might result."

[bohemienne.livejournal.com]

Яблокo and the others are prominent political parties in Russia. Yabloko is run by Victor Yavlinsky and is social democratic position that has garnered a lot of support from businessmen and oligarchs, including Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The SPS, or the Union of Right (in this case meaning "Correct" or "True") Forces, is an even more centrist position that favors lots of privatization and business advancement. They're a very major political force, probably second only to the Kremlin-loving Unity.

(Apologies to any real Russians if I've mischaracterized any of these parties. This is just what I've learned from my Russian Politics and Culture class this semester. ^^;)

And my guess is that Yabloko had the -a on the end because it was in genitive case.

[vatrooshkin.livejournal.com]

not Victor, but Gregory Yavlinsky:)

[bwww.livejournal.com]

one add-on
Яблокo *was* prominent political party, but VVP(aka Putin) ruled them out by tampered election few years ago.

[svl.livejournal.com]

Nope, check their results on all the elections since Soviet era, they were always low and were going lower each subsequent election.

[svl.livejournal.com]

LOL, Yabloko is a bunch of leftist dumbf_cks=), their support on the last elections was so small they were unable to gather 5% of votes which are required to win some places in State Duma.
And, Mikhail Khodorkovsky supported not only Yabloko, but also SPS and KPRF (Communist Party of Russia).

[noser.livejournal.com]

They overestimated (or, more probably, overemphasized) the popularity of pro-Western groups by a large margin. Those are actually very weak and in disarray after the last election.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__marginal/]

> The SPS, or the Union of Right (in this case meaning "Correct" or "True") Forces

In this case, "right" is in the political sense of the word. But they used "Correct" or "true" meaning too, for example in their slogan "You are Right" - "Ты прав!"

[another-kashin.livejournal.com]

Евгения Тараненко, his wife, has tried to capture Putin's office.
Яблоко - Yabloko, social-democratic party.
СПС - Сoюз правых сил - Union of the right forces, liberal party.
НБП - Национал-большевистская партия, National bolshchevik party, Limonov's radikal party.
ЦАО - Центральный административный округ, Central administrative district of Moscow.

Hi, there...

[buddah-gautama.livejournal.com]

1. "требоваться" means "to be needed, to be required" indeed... So, u've seen не "магазин требуется", а "магазинУ требуется:" and than there must be kinda professions like: менеджер or smt. It means that the new manager of the shop is needed...

2. "Яблоко" there is an "о" at the end...
СПС is Союз Правых Сил, i'd translate like "Right Forces Union"

both of them are liberal groups

НБП - Национальная Большевистская Партия - kinda National Bolshevists Party...

it's radical left party

ЦАО - Центральный Административный Округ, I suppose, Central District of Moscow...:)

3. And the last sentence mean that Евгения Тараненко captured the waiting room of Putin... I don't know how that could happen, to be honest...:)

[miram.livejournal.com]

They didn't capture Putin; in fact, they occupied the room for some time.

[nataxxa.livejournal.com]

They occupied public reception room. No Putin there, only clerks.

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand the "occupied the public reception room." Does that mean they were protesting there for too long a time so they had to arrest them?

And, out of curiosity, is the СвДПР still around. I read the декларация о создании Свободной демократической партии России, but that was in 1991. And I've never heard of any of these other parties either.

[spinkedzzz.livejournal.com]

i think they just refused to go out

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

They went inside the public reception room (the place you can, for example, bring you complaints if you feel that applying to lower-level authorities will do no good, and most of Russians feel exactly like this, and they don't go to the court since they're supposed to pay some fees for that, so they better go to Putin's public reception room to file their complaints since it's free... -- the place isn't even where the president's office is,) and refused to get out of there, and started to shout slogans and do the regular mischief like the anarchists and antiglobalists do in the West, that's what they did :))

СвДПР was one of all those tiny dwarfish parties which appeared and disappeared throughout the 1990s and never made eny serios influence on Russian politics. Never heard of them after, say, 1992.