Once the shuttle is retired this year, the only way for the United States to get astronauts into orbit will be on Russian Soyuz rockets.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

And then when I took my Russian class last year, I really liked it

而且我去年上俄语课时，我非常喜欢，

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But now Russian and American officials say they are aiming for the end of the year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

He notes that is an optimistic figure. Economic figures recently released by the Russian Federal Statistics Service show the GDP declined in the first quarter of this year by 9.5 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25