Catch up II - Lexicon 2000

What the hell is that flapping its wings?  ││
│This is our kids dancing under the Christmas tree!┌┐ ┌┐┌┐┌┐┌┐│ │ │  
For those who remember "Lexicon-99":
├┴┐│││││ ││├┤├┴┐└┤ this poem appeared in "Arzamas
└─┘┴┴└┘│ └┘ │ │└┘ news" 01/10/2001.

Lexicon - 2000

Putin, elections, I.O.,
dictatorship, anthem, judo.
"Kursk", tragedy, PR,
tower, passage, fire.
Sea, boat, diver,
electricity, oil, gas.
Explosion, ambush, Gudermes,
shutdowns, UES.
Veto, district, state council,
oligarch, prison, plenipotentiary.
Mourning, summit, candidate,
convict, "Butyrka", lawyer.
GDP, Zemfira, growth,
NTV, Gusinsky, "Most".
Microsoft, OPEC, tycoon,
century, millennium, senate.
Sydney, leasing, Internet,
PRO, Gore-Bush, immunity.

P.S. A thousand years have passed, but this light is still the same.
V. Bulygin.