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Dniester
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Dnies·ter  (nstr, dny-) or Dni·stro (nstr, dny-)
A river rising in western Ukraine and flowing about 1,368 km (850 mi) generally southeast through eastern Moldova then back into Ukraine where it empties into the Black Sea near Odessa. It formed the Soviet-Romanian border from 1918 to 1940.
Dniester [ˈdniːstə]
n
(Placename) a river in E Europe, rising in the Ukraine, in the Carpathian Mountains and flowing generally southeast to the Black Sea. Length: 1411 km (877 miles) Russian name Dnestr [ˈdnjɛstə]
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The Georgian war and the recognition of South Ossetian and Abkhaz independence raised fears among former Soviet republics that Russia might also intervene in other separatist conflicts, particularly in Pridnestrovie [Transdniester], wedged between Moldova and Ukraine along the banks of the Dnestr River, and Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan.
Russian irredentism after the Georgian Blitzkrieg by Rasizade, Alec / Contemporary Review
In Ukraine, 34 people have been killed in the west of the country along the Dnestr and Prut rivers while over 25,000 others have been evacuated.
Eastern Europe floods kill 42 people: UN by AFP / AFP Global Edition
The match is being played in the capital Chisinau after being switched from Tiraspol, the capital of Moldova's breakawy Dnestr region.
Football: Del Piero back for Italian job; GROUP 5 MOLDOVA v ITALY by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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