VOA常速英语2017--美国务卿面向民主共同体发表讲话

Across the globe, democratic nations and peoples are under threat, said U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a speech to the Community of Democracies. 全球的民主国家及其人民都正在受到威胁，美国国务卿蒂勒森在面向民主共

VOA慢速英语2018--Turkey's Erdogan Takes on New Powers

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to extend his rule and take on new powers after his victory in elections on Sunday. His ruling AK party and their allies won a majority in Turkeys parliament in the voting. Electoral officials decla

VOA标准英语2011--Chechnya's President Says Insurgency Dyi

In Russia's Chechnya republic, which has long been a center of anti Kremlin violence in the Caucasus, Ramzan Kadyrov, the young president, now feels his capital is safe enough to invite 50 foreign correspondents for a news conference and an exhibitio

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By Bill Gasperini The authoritarian leader of the former Soviet republic of Belarus is seeking to extend his rule in a controversial referendum that would amend the country's constitution, and allow h

VOA常速英语2008年-Chechnya Hangs On to Uneasy Peace

By Peter Fedynsky Grozny 22 February 2008 Wars of independence from Russia have been waged in the republic of Chechnya since the 19th century. Two of them have been fought in the past 14 years. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky recently visited

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VOA标准英语 Former Russian Oil Tycoon Could Face More Jail Time

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VOA标准英语2012--USAID Democracy Programs Can Complicate International Relations

USAID Democracy Programs Can Complicate International Relations After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the leaders of Russia asked the U.S. for assistance in building a democracy and a market economy. Over the past 20 years, election-monitoring grou

VOA标准英语2011--Russia Seeks Democracy After Soviet Collapse

Russia Seeks Democracy After Soviet Collapse In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has made enormous economic progress. Incomes have increased 10 times. But bookending these changes are demonstrations - in 1991 against com

VOA标准英语2011--Immigrants Reflect on Soviet Collapse

Immigrants Reflect on Soviet Collapse Since the collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago, millions of people have emigrated from the newly created nations that once were constituent republics of the communist empire. Our correspondent spoke to sever

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When Turkey voted against additional United Nations sanctions on Iran last May, it seemed the relationship between Ankara and Tehran was stronger than ever. But Turkey's growing political and economic influence in the Middle East may be gradually pus

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Presidential candidate and former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo casts his vote in presidential elections in Conakry, Guinea, 27 Jun 2010 Guinean authorities announced Monday that the second round of its landmark presidential poll will take plac

VOA标准英语2011--Tunisian Women Seeking Place in Future P

Women have been active participants in anti-government protests that toppled the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt. Now, as Tunisia turns the page on authoritarian rule, women are seeking their place in the future political makeup of this North African co

美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-08-13

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VOA标准英语2010年-Thai Protesters Galvanized by Ousted E

Many of the protesters who occupied parts of Bangkok for two months came from Thailand's rural northeast. They want new elections because their benefactor, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawtra, and politicians loyal to him, were removed by the mil

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September,28th, 2000Ariel Sharon, at the time Israel's hard-line opposition leader, visits Jerusalem's TempleMount. His visit to the sacred site, claimed by both Jews and Muslims, sparks violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians. And it fuels

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