World Book 2013 encyclopedia DVD - ISO- image - все тексты и иллюстрации из самой популярной американской энциклопедии для школьников - идеальны для изучающих английский !

 https://archive.org/details/WorldBook2013

WORLD BOOK is a remarkable research tool that provides an entertaining and involving way to access the full information of the 22-volume WORLD BOOK Encyclopedia, plus thousands of photographs, video clips, animations, famous speeches, historical timelines, editor-selected Web sites, and much more. The full reference suite comprises the main encyclopedia, WORLD BOOK Dictionary, a 3D Globe and distance calculator, the WORLD BOOK Trivia Challenge game, and the Media Showcase and This Day in History widgets. (Mac OS X 10.5-10.9, Windows XP and later, including Windows 8)

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A Christmas Carol - 1984

 A Christmas Carol - 1984 eng-sub

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(1984_film)

A Christmas Carol is a 1984 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous 1843 novella of the same name. The film was directed by Clive Donner, who had been an editor of the 1951 film Scrooge, and stars George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. It was filmed in the historic medieval county town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire.

Novelist and essayist Louis Bayard, writing for Salon.com, described this adaptation as "the definitive version of a beloved literary classic", praising its fidelity to Dickens' original story, the strength of the supporting cast, and especially Scott's performance as Scrooge

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Russian World Citizens Project 2005-2022 - World culture for Russians and Russian Culture in English- Zoom Coaching in English with Vlad Vorobev- Watching TV Series in English with english subtitles - Russian-English mp3 podcasts- Esperante Radio- WinWinNews

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World culture for Russians and Russian Culture in English-

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Watching TV Series in English with english subtitles:

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Goldendict ( Mdict-Mdx) Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

in Russian, English, German, French

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Russian-English mp3 podcasts

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Esperante Radio- Visual neoclassical Omdaru radio project music

( Modern classical, new age, world music )

+ Words and songs in Esperanto - International language

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1899 is a 2022 multilingual German epic period mystery-science fiction streaming television series created by Dark creators

 1899 is a multilingual German epic period mystery-science fiction streaming television series created by  Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar. It premiered on Netflix on 17 November 2022

Imdb 8.0/10 - 1899. A migrant steamship heads west to leave the old continent. The passengers, a mixed bag of European origins, united by their hopes and dreams for the new century and their future abroad. But their journey takes an unexpected turn when they discover another migrant ship adrift on the open sea. What they will find on board will turn their passage to the promised land into a horrifying nightmare

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https://www.imdb.com/review/rw8680137/?ref_=tt_urv

1899 is exactly what you'd expect from the creators of Dark. It's another dark, broody, cerebral, mystery drama, where most of the characters, like the audience, are trying to make sense of what's happening. Quite like Dark, 1899 starts off slowly, but once you get a vague idea of what is going on, you can't lose attention. It constantly surprises you with revelations, making you concoct different theories in your mind to find out the truth.

It's really a miracle that just over 2 years after finishing Dark, Jantje Friese and Baran Bo Odar have given us another similar mind boggling series

Vlad Vorobev - Omdaru on Mastodon- Russian World Citizens Project

Mastodon

Julia is an 2022 HBO American television series created based on the life of television chef Julia Child

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(2022_TV_series)

Julia is an American television series created by Daniel Goldfarb that premiered on HBO Max on March 31, 2022. It is based on the life of television chef Julia Child. In May 2022, the series was renewed for a second season.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10975574/?ref_=tt_urv

Balanced brilliance!

rrtiverton4 April 2022

I did not think I would like this series; for one, Meryl Streep owned the character in "Julie & Julia", along with Stanley Tucci as Paul, but half way into the first episode, I was totally absorbed into the story and the characters. Just superbly cast, well acted, the sets and the locations bring back a lot of memories.

I lived in Cambridge MA for a year or so back in the 80's, and Julia Child was a frequent sighting around Harvard Square - I would see her frequently in the bookstores and coffee shops. She was a presence, even without muttering a word.

Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde-Pierce are superb. They are Julia and Paul Child. Boston of that era was a bastion of equality, but still a product of it's time. I am glad to see that the writing is not telling a "woke" story, but an honest characterization of that time. There are times the show is as gritty as it WAS back then. Having LIVED through those times, this is about as honest portrayal as I could imagine.

Kudos HBO for bringing this story to the screen.

More Proof That This Really Is the End of History By Francis Fukuyama

 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/francis-fukuyama-still-end-history/671761/

More Proof That This Really Is the End of History

Over the past year, it has become evident that there are key weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states.

By Francis Fukuyama

Over the past decade, global politics has been heavily shaped by apparently strong states whose leaders are not constrained by law or constitutional checks and balances. Russia and China both have argued that liberal democracy is in long-term decline, and that their brand of muscular authoritarian government is able to act decisively and get things done while their democratic rivals debate, dither, and fail to deliver on their promises. These two countries were the vanguard of a broader authoritarian wave that turned back democratic gains across the globe, from Myanmar to Tunisia to Hungary to El Salvador. Over the past year, though, it has become evident that there are key weaknesses at the core of these strong states.

The weaknesses are of two sorts. First, the concentration of power in the hands of a single leader at the top all but guarantees low-quality decision making, and over time will produce truly catastrophic consequences. Second, the absence of public discussion and debate in “strong” states, and of any mechanism of accountability, means that the leader’s support is shallow, and can erode at a moment’s notice.

Supporters of liberal democracy must not give in to a fatalism that tacitly accepts the Russian-Chinese line that such democracies are in inevitable decline. The long-term progress of modern institutions is neither linear nor automatic. Over the years, we have seen huge setbacks to the progress of liberal and democratic institutions, with the rise of fascism and communism in the 1930s, or the military coups and oil crises of the 1960s and ’70s. And yet, liberal democracy has endured and come back repeatedly, because the alternatives are so bad. People across varied cultures do not like living under dictatorship, and they value their individual freedom. No authoritarian government presents a society that is, in the long term, more attractive than liberal democracy, and could therefore be considered the goal or endpoint of historical progress. The millions of people voting with their feet—leaving poor, corrupt, or violent countries for life not in Russia, China, or Iran but in the liberal, democratic West—amply demonstrate this.

The philosopher Hegel coined the phrase the end of history to refer to the liberal state’s rise out of the French Revolution as the goal or direction toward which historical progress was trending. For many decades after that, Marxists would borrow from Hegel and assert that the true end of history would be a communist utopia. When I wrote an article in 1989 and a book in 1992 with this phrase in the title, I noted that the Marxist version was clearly wrong and that there didn’t seem to be a higher alternative to liberal democracy. We’ve seen frightening reversals to the progress of liberal democracy over the past 15 years, but setbacks do not mean that the underlying narrative is wrong. None of the proffered alternatives look like they’re doing any better.

The weaknesses of strong states have been on glaring display in Russia. President Vladimir Putin is the sole decision maker; even the former Soviet Union had a Politburo where the party secretary had to vet policy ideas. We saw images of Putin sitting at the end of a long table with his defense and foreign ministers because of his fear of COVID; he was so isolated that he had no idea how strong Ukrainian national identity had become in recent years or how fierce a resistance his invasion would provoke. He similarly got no word of how deeply corruption and incompetence had taken root within his own military, how abysmally the modern weapons he had developed were working, or how poorly trained his own officer corps was.

The shallowness of his regime’s support was made evident by the rush to the borders of young Russian men when he announced his “partial” mobilization on September 21. Some 700,000 Russians have left for Georgia, Kazakhstan, Finland, and any other country that would take them, a far greater number than has actually been mobilized. Those who have been caught up by the conscription are being thrown directly into battle without adequate training or equipment, and are already showing up on the front as POWs or casualties. Putin’s legitimacy was based on a social contract that promised citizens stability and a modicum of prosperity in return for political passivity, but the regime has broken that deal and is feeling the consequences.

Putin’s bad decision making and shallow support has produced one of the biggest strategic blunders in living memory. Far from demonstrating its greatness and recovering its empire, Russia has become a global object of ridicule, and will endure further humiliations at the hands of Ukraine in the coming weeks. The entire Russian military position in the south of Ukraine is likely to collapse, and the Ukrainians have a real chance of liberating the Crimean Peninsula for the first time since 2014. These reversals have triggered a huge amount of finger-pointing in Moscow; the Kremlin is cracking down even harder on dissent. Whether Putin himself will be able to survive a Russian military defeat is an open question.

Something similar, if a bit less dramatic, has been going on in China. One of the hallmarks of Chinese authoritarianism in the period between Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978 and Xi Jinping’s accession to power in 2013 was the degree to which it was institutionalized. Institutions mean that rulers have to follow rules and cannot do whatever they please. The Chinese Communist Party imposed many rules on itself: mandatory retirement ages for party cadres, strict meritocratic standards for recruitment and promotion, and above all a 10-year term limit for the party’s most-senior leadership. Deng Xiaoping established a system of collective leadership precisely to avoid the dominance of a single obsessive leader like Mao Zedong.

Much of this has been dismantled under Xi Jinping, who will receive the blessing of his party to remain on as paramount leader for a third five-year term at the 20th Party Congress. In place of collective leadership, China has moved to a personalistic system in which no other senior official can come close to challenging Xi.

This concentration of authority in one man has in turn led to poor decision making. The party has intervened in the economy, hobbling the tech sector by going after stars such as Alibaba and Tencent; forced Chinese farmers to plant money-losing staples in pursuit of agricultural self-sufficiency; and insisted on a zero-COVID strategy that keeps important parts of China under continuing lockdowns that have shaved points off of the country’s economic growth. China cannot easily reverse zero-COVID, because it has failed to buy effective vaccines and finds a large part of its elderly population vulnerable to the disease. What looked two years ago like a triumphant success in controlling COVID has turned into a prolonged debacle.

All of this comes on top of the failure of China’s underlying growth model, which relied on heavy state investment in real estate to keep the economy humming. Basic economics suggests this would lead to massive misallocation of resources, as has in fact happened. Go online and search for Chinese buildings being blown up, and you will see many videos of massive housing complexes being dynamited because there is no one to buy apartments in them.

These authoritarian failures are not limited to China. Iran has been rocked by weeks of protests following the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police. Iran is in terrible shape: It faces a banking crisis, is running out of water, has seen big declines in agriculture, and is grappling with crippling international sanctions and isolation. Despite its pariah status, it has a well-educated population, in which women constitute a majority of university graduates. And yet the regime is led by a small group of old men with social attitudes several generations out of date. It is no wonder that the regime is now facing its greatest test of legitimacy. The only country that qualifies as even more poorly managed is one with another dictatorship, Venezuela, which has produced the world’s largest outflux of refugees over the past decade.

Celebrations of the rise of strong states and the decline of liberal democracy are thus very premature. Liberal democracy, precisely because it distributes power and relies on consent of the governed, is in much better shape globally than many people think. Despite recent gains by populist parties in Sweden and Italy, most countries in Europe still enjoy a strong degree of social consensus.

The big question mark remains, unfortunately, the United States. Some 30 to 35 percent of its voters continue to believe the false narrative that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and the Republican Party has been taken over by Donald Trump’s MAGA followers, who are doing their best to put election deniers in positions of power around the country. This group does not represent a majority of the country but is likely to regain control of at least the House of Representatives this November, and possibly the presidency in 2024. The party’s putative leader, Trump, has fallen deeper and deeper into a conspiracy-fueled madness in which he believes that he could be immediately reinstated as president and that the country should criminally indict his presidential predecessors, including one who is already dead.

There is an intimate connection between the success of strong states abroad and populist politics at home. Politicians such as Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour in France, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and of course Trump in the U.S. have all expressed sympathy for Putin. They see in him a model for the kind of strongman rule they would like to exercise in their own country. He, in turn, is hoping that their rise will weaken Western support for Ukraine and save his flailing “special military operation.”

Liberal democracy will not make a comeback unless people are willing to struggle on its behalf. The problem is that many who grow up living in peaceful, prosperous liberal democracies begin to take their form of government for granted. Because they have never experienced an actual tyranny, they imagine that the democratically elected governments under which they live are themselves evil dictatorships conniving to take away their rights, whether that is the European Union or the administration in Washington. But reality has intervened. The Russian invasion of Ukraine constitutes a real dictatorship trying to crush a genuinely free society with rockets and tanks, and may serve to remind the current generation of what is at stake. By resisting Russian imperialism, the Ukrainians are demonstrating the grievous weaknesses that exist at the core of an apparently strong state. They understand the true value of freedom, and are fighting a larger battle on our behalf, a battle that all of us need to join.

Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Shantaram is a 2022 drama thriller television series based on the novel by Gregory David Roberts

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantaram_(TV_series)

Shantaram is a drama thriller television series created by Eric Warren Singer and Steve Lightfoot, based on the novel of the same name by Gregory David Roberts.The story drew inspiration from Roberts' own life, which is about a bank robber from Australia who flees the country to India. The series will consist of twelve episodes directed by Justin Kurzel and Bharat Nalluri.  The series premiered on October 14, 2022.

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The Guardian: The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes review – Vladimir Putin and the power of myth-making

 The Guardian: The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes review – Vladimir Putin and the power of myth-making

https://www.amazon.com/Story-Russia-Orlando-Figes/dp/125079689X

The historian’s latest work on Russia is a lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation’s past have been used to shape its autocratic present

In July 2021, Vladimir Putin published his own story of Russia, a 5,000-word essay On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians, which can now be read as his justification for the invasion he launched seven months later to bring his brother “little Russians” back into the arms of big brother Rus. Reaching back into the mists of myth, he sees the idea of Ukraine as a Trojan horse, an “anti-Russian project” since the 17th century and that the present state is on “historically Russian lands”

In his brief post-invasion update, Figes points out the significance of the speech given by Patriarch Kirill on the “day of forgiveness”, in which he labelled the war in the Ukraine a crusade for “human salvation”, reminding the people that Moscow and the Orthodox church are the saviours of Christianity, the last bastions of true morality.

The present Ukrainian horror is the post-imperial catastrophe of a Russia that is struggling to accept what happened with the collapse of the Soviet Union and that empire in 1991. As always with Russia, the costs on all sides will be huge. 1812. 1917. 1945. These dates point to the astonishing impact Russia always has, twice claiming the role of saviour of civilisation after being invaded itself, as well as being the lodestar of world revolution for over a generation. Add 2022 to that list, as I suspect we will have to, and the long-term reverberations of Putin’s present destruction of Ukrainian cities and confrontation with the west become clear. Is it any wonder that Russians, both leaders and the people, have struggled to accept a humbler status in the world?

Figes records how in 2021 Putin directly attacked history by closing Memorial, an organisation deliberately set up to collect information about the past. Who knows now what the people truly feel about their new tsar’s attempt to re-establish the empire at such cost not just to Ukrainians but to themselves? Reading The Story of Russia you would be betting against history to suggest that Putin and his present boyars are not reflecting something deep in the Russian story. Yet in Kyiv, Putin is now creating another myth that will not easily be forgotten, for a country he does not believe exists: Ukraine.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/21/the-story-of-russia-by-orlando-figes-review-vladimir-putin-and-the-power-of-myth-making

Babel by R. F. Kuang ( 2022) - "великий неодиккенсовский колониальный роман воспитания в атмосфере академического Оксфорда в параллельном мире с элементами магии на основе искусства перевода"

 https://vk.com/interculturalruen?w=wall-8630238_2699

Со времен Щегла ( The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt ) , кажется, не читал ничего более захватывающего в жанре "великого неодиккенсовского романа" на великолепном английском языке , снова от американского автора , но теперь азиатского происхождения, отсюда колониальный роман воспитания в атмосфере академического Оксфорда в параллельном мире с элементами магии на основе искусства перевода

The Guardian: Babel: the BookTok sensation that melds dark academia with a post-colonial critique

Set at Oxford in the 1800s, Rebecca F Kuang’s new novel is a magic-infused allegory for structural oppression – and social media can’t get enough of it

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/08/babel-the-booktok-sensation-that-melds-dark-academia-with-a-post-colonial-critique

R. F. Kuang - Babel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._F._Kuang#Other_novels

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel.

Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization.

For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide…

TV Series - Activating English Vocabulary - House of the Dragon 2022 S01E01 english subtitles - with Dictionary.cambridge.org - Text-to-Speech Balabolka

 TV Series - Activating English Vocabulary 

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26/08/2022

Zoom Coaching in English with Vlad Vorobev- 12 ак.ч в зуме всего за 2400 рублей- 

Активируем 500 речевых английских моделей за месяц!

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3-D Reading- Трехмерное чтение- Смотрим фильмы на английском с английскими субтитрами с опорой на англо-английские учебные словари

Take english subtitles from your favorite current TV Series , for example, House of the Dragon S01E01-2022

Take Examples from

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-russian/ pre-intermediate

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/  advanced

Make up your own sentences based on the examples from the dictionary and type them into your current active vocabulary list

Text-to-Speech Balabolka- Microsoft Hazel Desktop UK Voice

http://balabolka-tts.ru/balabolka.html

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/RWZ3/UqPWwBLH2/TV%20Series%20-%20Activating%20English%20Vocabulary-Balabolka.mp3

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Голос читает английские тексты правильно на 95 процентов, но ошибается в тех словах,

 где одинаковое написание и разное произношение в разных значениях, 

например, close - s- близкий- z- закрывать или read- i- читать -e-прочитал, 

contEnt- доволен- cOntent- содержание- Можно регулировать высоту голоса и скорость, 

в этом примере оба значения на минус пять, то есть,

 ниже и замедленная речь для уровня pre-intermediate

House-of-the-Dragon_S01E01_English subtitles

1

00:00:12,276 --> 00:00:15,529

<i>As the first century

of the Targaryen dynasty</i>

2

00:00:15,612 --> 00:00:16,404

<i>came to a close,</i>

конец

The year was drawing to a close.

Our project was drawing to a close.(z)

3

00:00:16,487 --> 00:00:19,407

<i>the health of the Old King,</i>

4

00:00:19,490 --> 00:00:22,160

<i>Jaehaerys, was failing.</i>

to stop working normally, or to become weaker

выходить из строя, отказывать

Two of the plane's engines had failed.

My car's engine had failed.

проваливаться (на экзамене)

I'm worried about failing my driving test.

I'm worried about failing my exam

to not be successful

терпеть неудачу

Dad's business failed after just three years.

She keeps failing in her attempt to lose weight.

My business failed after just three months

17

00:01:00,067 --> 00:01:03,569

<i>Fourteen succession

claims were heard</i>

18

00:01:03,652 --> 00:01:07,407

<i>but only two were

truly considered:</i>

to think carefully about a decision or something you might do

рассматривать, обдумывать

Have you considered surgery?

[ + doing sth ] We're considering buying a new car.

I am considering leaving my current job

to have a particular opinion about someone or something

считать, полагать

[ often reflexive ] I don't consider myself to be a great athlete.

 I  consider myself to be a good listener

49

00:04:44,384 --> 00:04:48,135

I believe I'm quite content

as a spectator, thank you.

happy or satisfied

довольный, удовлетворенный

Not contEnt with second place, Jeff played only to win.

[ + to do sth ] I was content to stay home and read.

I was contEnt with my second place

the information or ideas that are talked about in a book, speech, film, etc

содержание

The content of the article was controversial.

The content of my report was controversial.

causing a lot of disagreement or argument

спорный

a controversial decision/issue

this is a controversial issue 

an important subject or problem that people are discussing

вопрос, проблема

the issues of race and social class

political issues

Chris has raised a very important issue. /ˈɪʃuː/

You have raised a very important issue