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FT年度词汇：新俄罗斯

这个名词从何而来？为何普京重新使用这个词汇会掀起轩然大波？了解一下2014年度热词“新俄罗斯”的前世今生吧。

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：

Catherine the Great俄罗斯女沙皇叶卡捷琳娜大帝

Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Odessa卢汉斯克、顿涅斯克、赫尔松和敖德萨，乌克兰东部和南部城市

step children继子女

rouble卢布

A year in a word: Novorossiya（369words）

Vladimir Putin's use of the word led many to fear Russian expansionism, says Courtney Weaver, FT Deputy Moscow bureau chief

Novorossiya

noun — the Black Sea territory that was part of the Russian Empire from the late 18th century until the Revolution of 1917. While most of the world considers the territory part of modern-day Ukraine, a group of pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine and the Moscow leadership beg to differ.

Stretching from northeastern Donetsk to southwestern Odessa, Novorossiya, or New Russia, was a territorial coup for Catherine the Great, who conquered the sea-bound territory following a series of wars with the Ottomans in the 18th century. More than two centuries later, the region has once again become an area of contention, this time between Ukraine's central government in Kiev and rebel forces who have formed self-declared republics on the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk.

While the term Novorossiya was abandoned during the Soviet era, the terminology was reintroduced the global lexicon this spring by Vladimir Putin. In a key speech, the Russian president stressed Novorossiya's historical, cultural and linguistic ties to Russia. “Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Odessa weren't included as part of Ukraine,” Mr Putin said. “They were given to it by the Soviet government.”

His words led many to believe that Moscow would annex Donetsk and Lugansk and make Novorossiya Russian once again. Yet nine months later, pro-Russia supporters in east Ukraine have been disappointed.

In the following weeks and months, Mr Putin dropped the term Novorossiya from his public vocabulary and has tamped down the Kremlin's public, if not private, support for the rebel leadership.

Unlike Crimea, which was fully embraced into the Russian Federation and is in the process of receiving billions of dollars in Russian state investment, Donetsk and Lugansk have ended up as step children: self-declared republics that receive humanitarian, financial, military and political assistance from Moscow, but to a large extent have been left on their own.

With a falling rouble and slowing economy, no one in Moscow seems quite so eager now for Novorossiya to rejoin the Russian empire. Crimean spring has faded into winter.

请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：

1.Novorossiya was a land conquered by the Russian Empire from whom?

A.Soviet Ukraine.

B.Prussia/Germany.

C.Ottoman Empire.

D.Poland.

答案(1)

2.When was the term Novorossiya abandoned?

A.After the death of Catherine the Great.

B.After the desintegration of the Soviet Union.

C.After Putin was elected as president.

D.After Russian Revolution of 1917.