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2. Barriers keep falling, people & cultures mix, but one thing remains basic & dear to my heart - my homeland, Russia.

3. No one can deny that it is a great country in all senses of the world, with its area of 17,1 million square kilometres, & the population of 150 million people.

4. It spans two parts of the world, Europe & Asia, serving as a bridge between them.

5. It is washed by the seas of the Arctic & Pacific Oceans.

6. The variety of climatic zones it the north down to the subtropics in the south.

7. It has immense natural resources, such as coal, oil & gas, all kinds of mineral deposits, great forests & rivers, it has everything.

8. There are many branches of industry in Russia - machine-building, steel production, chemical & electronic industries, & numerous others.

9. Unfortunately, agriculture is in a rather poor state, & we have to import foodstuffs, & even wheat.

10.The potential of Russia & its people is great, & with reasonable economic mechanisms & laws the country will overcome the present difficulties, & will occupy the place it deserves in the world community.

11.The cultural heritage of Russia is rich & varied/

12.The names of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky are known all over the world/

13.Russia’s history, like that of any other great country, is full of glory & blood.

14.Russia twice saved Europe from the Dark Age - stopping the Tartars, & crushing the German fascists.

15.I’m proud of my country, I love Russia, my motherland, & will do the best I can to improve its economic & political situation.

An Outstanding Person of Russia.

1. Russia gave birth to many wonderful people, who made great contributions to all fields of human activity, such as science, art, various discoveries, & so on.

2. The world knows our composers, ballet dancers, writers.

3. As for me, I think one of the greatest men, who influenced Russian & world culture, was Alexander Pushkin.

4. I believe that in his prose & poetry he actually created the modern Russian language, the language we use today.

5. He was born a nobelman & lived a life of a nobelman.

6. He studied at an exclusive school, lycee.

7. He visited all those balls, & parties, & receptions at court.

8. But he managed to feel & know the souls of ordinary Russian people of all walks of life.

9. His power of observation was so great, that in his works he drew a comprehensive picture of life in Russia at that time.

10.It’s a strange phenomenon that poets do not live long.

11.I think that is because the candle burns so brightly & so fast.

12.Pushkin was killed at the age of 37 at a duel that was a result of intrigue & scandal connected with the name of his wife.

13.But poets do not die.

14.If you asked Russian people who their favourite poets is, most would answer «Pushkin».

15.Small kids learn to read using his fairy tales, & this admiration of his poetry just stays on.