VOA慢速英语2011-- 20 Years After the Soviet Union, Renewed Calls for Political Reform

IN THE NEWS - 20 Years After the Soviet Union, Renewed Calls for Political Reform This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. December marks twenty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev was the last Soviet leader. His reform

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Soviet Daughter': How A Great-Grandmother's Diary Became A Graphic Novel

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A secret diary, a hidden history. Julia Alekseyeva discovered her great-grandmother Lola's memoir, and she turned it into her debut graphic novel. It's called Soviet Daughter. It tells the story of Lola, a barely educate

英语语法：195 Regionalisms

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is What's with those people who talk weird? or regionalisms. Language is constantly changing, and a lot of people have asked me about how and why it happens. This isn't my area of expertise, but I've done a lot of rea

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--Soviet Collapse Altered Ongoing World Power Balance

Soviet Collapse Altered Ongoing World Power Balance The collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago changed the worlds geopolitical balance. When the Soviet Union fell, it ended the tenure of a superpower with the resources of more than a dozen countri

VOA标准英语2011--Gorbachev's Foreign Policy Helps Bring Soviet Collapse

Gorbachev's Foreign Policy Helps Bring Soviet Collapse December marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this second, of a two-part series, we examine how the foreign policy of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, cont

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

VOA标准英语2009年-Afghanistan: Lessons from Soviet Withdrawal

Twenty years have passed since the Soviet Union ended its disastrous military venture in Afghanistan. Some Soviet veterans were traumatized by the war and refuse to talk about it, others reflect on the experience and draw lessons they say apply to N

VOA标准英语2013--For Africans in Moscow, a Slow Return to Soviet Exoticism

For Africans in Moscow, a Slow Return to Soviet Exoticism When Russian nationalist skinheads chant against the chyorni or the blacks they protest Muslim immigrants from Central Asia. But Africans in Moscow say they also can be targets. For several Af

VOA标准英语2014--Europe Raises Stakes With Tour of Former Soviet States

Europe Raises Stakes With Tour of Former Soviet States LONDON The President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy visited Georgia Wednesday - the latest stop on a tour of former Soviet states which aim to sign Association Agreements with the Euro

VOA常速英语2007-Former Soviet Union Launched Space Age 50 Years

By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 03 October 2007 October 4th marks 50 years since the former Soviet Union hurled humanity's first object into Earth orbit. It was a small round device known as Sputnik -- Russian for satellite -- with four antennas and a trans

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Year I Was Peter The Great': A Young American In Soviet Russia

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: At age 87, Marvin Kalb has spent a great many interesting years. He was a Moscow bureau chief and a diplomatic correspondent for CBS and for NBC. He's been the host of NBC's Meet The Press and the author of many books. And his ne

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Taking Of K-129': How The CIA Stole A Sunken Soviet Sub Off The Ocean Floor

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to switch gears now. This is a mystery story, a spy story and a technology story all rolled into one. It started one February morning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, when Soviet submarine K-129 sank to the bottom

经济学人108:前苏联的末途 The end of the Soviet Union: Walking dead

Books and Arts; Book Review;The end of the Soviet Union; Walking dead; 文艺；书评；前苏联的末途；行尸走肉； The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation.By Oliver Bullough. 《俄罗斯最后一人：拯救行将灭亡之

VOA标准英语2008年-US Envoy Says Interests of Former Soviet States

By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 04 June 2008 Russia's relations with independent countries that once formed the Soviet Union have often been contentious, and Moscow's efforts to exert influence in the region have also led to tensions with the West, particu

World AIDS Day Finds Russia, Former Soviet Union in Grips of

By Bill Gasperini United Nations health officials say Russia and other nations of the former Soviet bloc are confronting the world's fastest-growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS. One decade ago, the countries

VOA常速英语2007-Putin Commemorates Victims of Soviet Repression

By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 30 October 2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin has commemorated more than 20,000 people executed at a Moscow killing field during the height of Stalinist terror in 1937 to 1938. Mr. Putin said those who perished included th

VOA标准英语2013--Gay Rights Roil Former Soviet Georgia

Gay Rights Roil Former Soviet Georgia TBILISI, GEORGIA Gay rights have spread in the West, but a backlash is taking hold in the former Soviet Union. Russias new ban on gay propaganda is sparking Western calls for boycotts of Russian products and even

VOA标准英语2011--Gorbachev's Domestic Reforms Led to End of Soviet Union

Gorbachev's Domestic Reforms Led to End of Soviet Union December marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was the internal reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, that contributed to the demise of the Soviet Un

VOA常速英语2007年-Hungary Mourns 1956 Victims of Soviet Invasion

By Stefan Bos Budapest 04 November 2007 Hungarians remembered Sunday those who died when troops from the Soviet Union crushed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet domination and Communism. But as Stefan Bos reports from Budapest, this year's