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- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"><head xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" profile=""><title>Chapter 7. Lesson 7</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"/></head><body><div xml:lang="" class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e21724" shape="rect"/>Chapter 7. Lesson 7</h1></div></div></div><div class="informaltable"><table class="informaltable" width="100%" border="1"><colgroup span="1"><col span="1"/></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Lesson №7</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">SHOPPING</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">УРОК № 7</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="Images/FsiRussianFast-Lessons6-8-6.png" alt="Lesson 7"/></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e21744" shape="rect"/><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">Мы идём в магази́н!</em></span></h1></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">валю́та</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></div></div></body></html>
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