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- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:pls="http://www.w3.org/2005/01/pronunciation-lexicon" xmlns:ssml="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><head><title>Chapter 7. Lesson 7</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-epub.css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"/><link rel="prev" href="ch06s06.xhtml" title="Numbers"/><link rel="next" href="ch07s02.xhtml" title="В магазине"/></head><body><header/><section class="chapter" title="Chapter 7. Lesson 7" epub:type="chapter" id="d0e20671"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title">Chapter 7. Lesson 7</h1></div></div></div><div class="informaltable"><table style="width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 1px solid ; border-bottom: 1px solid ; border-left: 1px solid ; border-right: 1px solid ; "><colgroup><col/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center; ">Lesson №7</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center; ">SHOPPING</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center; ">УРОК № 7</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center; "><span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="Images/FsiRussianFast-Lessons6-8-6.png"/></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><section class="section" title="Мы идём в магазин!" epub:type="subchapter" id="d0e20691"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Мы идём в магазин!</em></span></h2></div></div></div><p>Thanks to the inroads capitalism has made into Russia, shopping is less of a chore than it
- ever used to be. During the Soviet period, when various goods would disappear from the
- state-owned stores, usually with little or no warning and for no apparent reasons, the foreign
- community (with its <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">валюта</em></span></strong></span> hard currency) nearly always had everything it needed or
- wanted, thanks to the stores known as <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Берёзка</em></span></strong></span> which were off-limits to Soviet citizens. Today,
- however, Moscow and St. Petersburg and to a lesser extent the capitals of the Newly
- Independent States are inundated with stores which sell those same goods openly and at prices
- which are on a par with those in Western Europe and the US. Some of these stores are owned and
- operated by foreign concerns, some are joint ventures and still others are owned and operated
- by Russians.</p><p>Today there are very few things which you will be unable to purchase in Moscow or St.
- Petersburg. Whether it is a Cadillac Seville or Arrow shirts, you can be pretty certain that
- somewhere in the city there's somebody selling just what you need. The big problem today is
- not whether or not you CAN buy something, but WHERE you're going to find it in the forest of
- new stores that has replaced the simple <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">берёзки</em></span></strong></span>.</p></section></section><footer/></body></html>
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