Russia Seeks Democracy After Soviet Collapse In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has made enormous economic progress. Incomes have increased 10 times. But bookending these changes are demonstrations - in 1991 against com...
Finance ministers and central bankers of leading industrialized nations are meeting through Saturday in the southern French city of Marseilles to assess how to counter growing financial and economic problems. The Group of Seven meeting takes place am...
Your attention please:Just personal advice, if you don't like it, please ignore it. To seek a good job: Overall Ability Firstly, to renew your knowledge structure as soon as possible. The main differences between those educated people and those unedu...
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Thursday said President Barack Obama is likely to run for reelection（改选） in 2012. I think it is likely that is going to happen, said Gibbs during a regular briefing, noting...
Rob: Hello! Im Rob, this is 6 Minute English - and today, I'm joined byYvonne. Hello, Yvonne. Yvonne: Hi Rob! Rob: Today, were talking about seed banks a place where the seeds from all kindsof plants are carefully stored. Unfortunately, researchers a...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has become America's first major daily newspaper to publish online-only. Hearst, the company that owns it, printed the final newspaper on Tuesday. The Seattle P-I was one hun...
Six countries meeting in Beijing are trying to work out how to best verify North Korea's account of its nuclear program. The six parties are set to continue this week with meetings in Beijing. Envoys from Russia, US, North Korea, Japan, China and So...
With congressional hearings set Thursday and Friday of this week in advance of a vote on lending money to the beleaguered U.S. auto industry, General Motors says it needs money almost immediately. VOA's Barry Wood has more on the controversy over go...
The collapse of the Soviet Union left a complex mixture of ethnic groups in republics of the former empire. Their common language, Russian, expanded at the expense of native languages, which former Soviet republics are seeking to revive. Ukraine is...
