At around midday local time, officials say a car loaded with explosives struck two vehicles carrying Italian paratroopers along the airport road near the U.S.embassy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Remember, this is a time, as we'll see in a while, where the czar was on the road a lot, and distances in the Russian empire are enormous.

要记得一点,我们后面还会讲到,因为彼得大帝经常外出,而当时的俄帝国幅员辽阔

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"It depends on what you are talking about. If you are talking about some money that bleeds around the edges to get a road paved, but you get the road paved, you get it paved on time, you get it paved to the quality it is supposed to be, frankly it is a nuisance,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.17