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Криминальное чтиво со словарем

MOTHER, DAUGHTER FACE 10 YEARS FOR STUN-GUN ROBBERY

By Natalya Krainova

Staff writer

An elderly Moscow woman and her daughter are facing up to 10 years in prison for purportedly using a stun device to rob a company offering a knitting course in which the daughter had enrolled, city police said.

The daughter paid 10,000 rubles ($360) for the knitting classes but became disenchanted with the course and demanded a refund, police said in a statement.

«We have information that they weren’t satisfied with the quality of teaching,» police spokesman Anatoly Lastovetsky said of the mother and daughter.

Police identified the two women only by their first names and the first initial of their last names: Svetlana A., 35, and Iraida A., 73.

With the aim of retrieving Svetlana’s money, the two women went to the office of the company running the knitting courses on 1st Ulitsa Yamskogo Polya, near the Belorusskaya metro station in northern Moscow.

The company secretary asked the women to draw up a written request for a refund addressed to the company’s director, a common requirement for reimbursement in Russia.

The two women, however, demanded their money back immediately. After the secretary refused, the elderly woman pulled an electric-shock device from her purse and stunned the employee with the device, police said.

The two women then snatched the secretary’s purse, which contained 34,000 rubles ($1,200), and fled the office, according to police.

After recovering from the electric shock, the secretary reported the incident to police, who detained the two suspects at their apartment shortly thereafter.

Police opened a robbery investigation Thursday, the city police said.[1]

Device                            Прибор, устройство

Disenchant                     Освобождаться от чар

Draw up                         Составлять документ

Enroll                             Записываться, зачисляться

Face up 10 years in prison        Грозит 10 тюрьмы

Flee (fled, fled)               Убегать

Initial                              Начальная буква

Knitting course               Курс по вязанию

Purportedly                     Предположительно

Purse                               Дамская сумочка, кошелек

Recover                           Приходить в себя, выздоравливать

Refund                            Возврат суммы

Reimbursement              Компенсация

Request                          Просьба, требование

Requirement                   Необходимое условие

Retrieve                          Вынимать, возвращать

Rob                                 Грабить

Robbery                          Грабеж

[1] «The Moscow Times» 2009 год