On Wednesday, dozens of leaders of international companies working in Russia will commit themselves to refraining from participating in corrupt practices.
The initiative to formulate principles for fighting corruption was pushed by several large German companies, said Michael Harms, chairman of the Russian-German Foreign Trade Chamber. The firms were interested in what steps could be taken to develop anti-corruption mechanisms for daily business practices in Russia.
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Vocabulary
foreign
иностранный
firm
фирма
bribe
взятка
commit
связывать [себя] обязательством, пообещать
refrain
воздерживаться
participate
участвовать
corrupt
коррумпированный, продажный
practice
дела, действия, поступки
formulate
сформулировать
corruption
коррупция
chairman
председатель
Chamber
палата
develop
разработать
ОБЩЕНИЕ /COMMUNICATION/
At the hotel
Clerk: Good evening, sir. May I help you? Добрый вечер, сэр. Могу я вам помочь?
Roy: Yes. What kind of rooms do you have? Да. Какие у вас есть комнаты?
C: How large is your party? Сколько у вас человек?
R: Three. Two adults and one child. Трое. Двое взрослых и один ребёнок.
C: Let's see. We have a room with two double beds. How many nights? Давайте посмотрим. У нас есть комната с двумя двуспальными кроватями. На сколько ночей?
R: Just one. We're only staying overnight. Всего на одну. Мы только переночуем.
C: The checkout is at 12 o'clock. Расплатиться и освободить номер нужно до 12ти.
R: That's fine. We are planning to leave by 10. Хорошо. Мы планируем уехать к 10ти.
C: Wonderful. May I please have your passports? Замечательно. Можно мне, пожалуйста, ваши паспорта?
ВАРИАЦИИ НА ТЕМУ /MANY AND VARIOUS/
Failure in business
loss – if a business makes a loss, it spends more than it earns. (убыток)
bankruptcy – the state when someone is judged to be unable to pay their debts by a court of law, and their money and possessions are shared among the people and businesses that they owe money to. (банкротство)
administration – if a company is in administration, it is being reorganized by a specialist from outside the company, because it is in serious financial difficulties. (администрирование)
liquidation – if a company goes into liquidation, it closes and everything it owns is sold in order to pay its debts. (перевод в наличные, ликвидация задолженности)
receivership – if a business is in receivership, it is controlled by an official receiver because it has no money. (администрация доходов)
ТАЙНЫЙ СМЫСЛ /OBSCURE MEANING/
o.b.o : or best offer или наилучшее предложение
OCR : optical character recognition оптическое распознавание символов, оптическое распознавание текста
Oct. : October октябрь
o/d : overdraft, overdrawn превышение кредита (в банке)
OECD : organization for economic cooperation and development Организация Европейского сотрудничества и развития