Example sentences for: segodnya

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  • The daily paper Segodnya (circulation 100,000) claimed in its lead story that proceedings to impeach President Boris Yeltsin look set to become a permanent feature of the Russian Duma (parliament).

  • In Russia, where the government has announced plans to cut spending on social welfare programs, which are largely notional anyway, Segodnya published an upbeat interview with First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko predicting that the country will get its promised loans from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank "if nothing political happens again."

  • Segodnya pointed out that the 3,600-strong Russian presence in Kosovo--along with its 1,200-member contingent in Bosnia--will cost about $500 million per year--for which "there is no money" in the 1999 budget.

  • The Russian newspaper Segodnya , commenting on Vice President Al Gore's visit to Russia, said President Boris Yeltsin, vacationing in Karelia, had deliberately distanced himself from Gore because he didn't want to look as if he was begging for American money.

  • In Russia, the daily Segodnya said Friday that Russia was generally safe from Y2K because most of its computers had been purchased in the mid-1990s when the problem was already understood by software producers ("Thus, the technical backwardness of Russia played to its advantage for the first time").


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