Word: dnepropetrovsk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene like a comet. In her first ever international competition, she won last year's world championships in Prague. And this is, of course, her first Olympics. But her life must change. She came up the hard way. Her childhood will shortly be folklore: her father disappeared from Dnepropetrovsk when she was two; her mother died at 36 of cancer when Oksana was 13, leaving the child without blood relations to turn to. Her coach was the next to vanish -- emigrating to Canada to seek a better future than struggling Ukraine could offer. It was then that Zmievskaya took over...
...only early returns were from six Soviet military bases in Kiev, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk and Donet- sk. The referendum carried there easily, with support ranging from 80.4 percent in Dnepropetrovsk to 97 percent in Kiev, said military spokesperson Vladimir Korkodim...