In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own.

在弗拉基米尔镇上住着一位名叫伊万·德米特里奇·阿克肖诺夫的年轻商人。他经营着两家店铺，还有一所自己的房子。

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IVAN: it is. But buying a house is very important. So it takes time.

艾闻：不过买房子很重要，所以要花时间。

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Every night Ivan stopped in at the pub which was on the edge of the village graveyard. Ivan never crossed the graveyard to get to his lonely house on the other side.

每天晚上，伊万都要到村子墓地旁的那个小酒馆去，但每次从酒馆回到他在墓地另一边的那个孤伶伶的屋子时，他都不会从墓地当中穿过去。

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Ivan Rybkin, a former negotiator with the Chechens who is influential in the lower house of Russia's parliament, argues that the Kremlin should pay the Chechen statelet the money promised last May and win some leverage over it.

ECONOMIST: Chechnya