SOLT Russian listening — Module 6 Lesson 5, track 122
SOLT listening workbook · Module 6 Lesson 5, track 122
Task
Listen to the famous Russian writer Aleksander Solzhenitsin reply to a newsreporter who
had asked what had he done in the past eight years since returning to Russia from the US.
Then, answer to the statements as True or False.
T/F
1. Solzhenitsin has tried to help Russia from going on a bad course.
2. He has not talked to lawmakers.
3. All these years he has been quietly writing at his dacha in Rostov.
4. Not a single bit of advice from him has been accepted by anyone.
Transcript
Все эти восемь лет, как я вернулся, я пытался воздействовать на гибельный ход событий в России.
All these eight years since I returned, I have been trying to influence the disastrous course of events in Russia.
Я обращался к властям, начиная с Верховной, к законодателям, к государственным и общественным деятелям,
I appealed to the authorities, starting with the Supreme Court, to legislators, to government and public figures,
к общественности, читателям моих книг, телезрителям.
to the public, readers of my books, television viewers.
Никакого моего молчания не было.
There was no silence on my part.
Но все мои обращения оказались тщетны.
But all my appeals were in vain.
Ни один мой совет не был принят.
None of my advice was accepted.