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Business Matters: Ukrainian steelworkers take on pro-Russian militia¹ 16 May 14

Fri, 16 May 14

The New York Times’ Andrew Kramer speaks to us on his return from Eastern Ukraine where steelworkers have taken to the streets to patrol their cities. With less than a month to go to the World Cup, Katy Watson reports from the scene of yet another anti-government protest in Brazil. We hear from Corynne McSheery about ‘net neutrality’ and why two-tier internet streaming is a very bad idea and Rahul Tandon joins us from Calcutta as India prepares to find out who won the world’s biggest election. In our New York bureau, Gordon Chang talks fast lanes, FCC and pharma; in Delhi, Vandana Shiva talks ecofeminism, GM crops and better ways to measure wellbeing.

1 militia   

n.民兵，民兵组织

参考例句：

• First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
• There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。