Практика перевода. Андросова М.А. - 55 стр.

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Упражнение 5. Переведите с английского языка:
1. RETURN MY BENEFITS Unimpressed by assurances from president Vladimir
Putin that the replacement of Soviet-era benefits would be carried out painlessly,
several thousand pensioners staged new protests across central Russia and Siberia on
Tuesday, as the Communist Party started collecting signatures to call a vote of no
confidence in Mikhail Fradkov's government.
Large rallies of pensioners in Kazan, Tver, Perm, Tomsk and Kaluga demanded
the return of free transport rides, subsidized medicines and other benefits, which were
supposed to have been replaced with cash allowances on Jan. 1.
Putin weighed in on the weeklong crisis Monday to urge the federal government
and regional authorities do more to soften the transition for socially vulnerable
groups.
The president also instructed the Cabinet to increase the basic monthly pension
by at least 200 rubles, instead of by 100 rubles as originally planned, and to bring
forward the raise by a month to March 1. (The Moscow Times, by Francesco Mereu,
19.01.2005)
2. RUSSIA: ELDERLY IN STREET PROTESTS Pensioners held scattered
demonstrations for a third day to protest the government's replacement of Soviet-era
social benefits with cash payments. Protests were reported in Barnaul in Siberia,
Togliatti on the Volga River and in other cities after similar ones on Sunday and
Monday in an unusual expression of public discontent with President Vladimir V.
Putin's government. On Monday, several hundred elderly demonstrators gathered at
the outskirts of Moscow and briefly blocked the main highway to St. Petersburg; 12
were arrested. On Jan. 1, the government began replacing benefits like free
transportation, prescriptions and housing for pensioners and the disabled with cash
payments of $20 to $120 a month, which critics argue are too meager to compensate
for the lost benefits. (The New York Times, by Steven Lee Myers, January 12, 2005)
3. CUT MY BENEFITS I am 59 – and Congress should cut my future Social
Security and Medicare benefits. The same goes for people 58, 48 and even 68. Plenty
of present retirees could afford to have their benefits cut. The chances of this
happening soon are, of course, about nil. If President Bush and his critics agree on
anything in the Social Security debate, it is that existing retirees and "near retirees"
shouldn't be touched. This is all about politics. The moral and economic case for
shielding these people – people like me – is nonexistent. Give Bush credit for
broaching, however indirectly, these sensitive issues. Criticize the Democrats for
their limp "how dare you" response. But recognize that Bush's chosen vehicle for
overhauling Social Security – "personal" investment accounts – distracts from what
ought to be the central question: How much should younger and poorer taxpayers be
forced to pay for older and richer beneficiaries? (The Washington Post, by Robert J.
Samuelson, February 9, 2005)

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