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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.


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Brussels links the ratification of this treaty to Russia completing the withdrawal of its troops from Georgia and the Trans Dniester region.
To this day, for example, the fighting that broke out in 1992 in Moldova, when Russian-speaking separatists succeeded in detaching a strip of the country along the left bank of the river Dniester and turned it into an independent republic, is presented as a textbook study of how civil wars can start when the dominant nation in a new state fails to take into consideration the anxieties of the minority.
Also, Moldovans from the left bank of the Dniester river were "prohibited from using the Latin alphabet in their schooling".
 
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