Word: kishinev
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...embattled President could also claim some success in easing tensions in the southwestern republic of Moldavia. Russian and Turkic minorities have tried to set up independent states there in opposition to a republican government that is dominated by the Romanian-speaking majority. In Kishinev, Moldavia's capital, the parliament bowed to an ultimatum from Gorbachev and agreed to reconsider laws promoting rights for ethnic Moldavians; in return, the parliament was assured that local secessionists would halt their efforts to splinter the republic...
...troops weren't enough to prevent bloodshed in the Dniester River valley, a region east of the Moldavian capital of Kishinev where ethnic Russians have also proclaimed their independence from the republic. Skirmishes between Moldavians and Russians outside the town of Dubossary reportedly left at least six dead and 30 wounded...
...Brennan Klose '90 and Catherine Boyle '89 were chosen in a nationwide application process to represent the U.S. in debates in Moscow, Leningrad, Kishinev and Minsk. They will be joined on the two-week trip by a third student--a Soviet emigree who attends the University of California at Northridge...
...Soviet leaders of his generation who do not seem to have fought in World War II. He spent most of the war years in Moscow attending the Higher Party School, an ideological training ground for party officials. In 1953 he received a diploma from a teachers' college, the Kishinev Pedagogical Institute. The luckiest break in his career came in 1948, when he was sent to the former Rumanian province of Moldavia, where a frenzied "Sovietization" campaign was in progress. Chernenko became the chief of Agitation and Propaganda, or Agitprop. Leonid Brezhnev subsequently was named first secretary of the Moldavian branch...
...salt for every quart, the burning brew killed some 2,000 tons of fish, destroyed an unknown quantity of aquatic plant life on which fish thrive, and forced officials to cut off water temporarily to numerous communities that depend on the Dniester, including the major cities of Odessa and Kishinev. To make up for the lost water, officials scurried to drill wells and divert streams and lakes...