Word: moldavian
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...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...
...demands of both subgroups were rejected by the Moldavian parliament, itself locked in a separatist struggle with the central Soviet government. The republic of 4.3 million, 65% of whom are native Moldavians, was historically a province of Romania but was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Last June Moldavia declared its sovereignty; two months later the popularly elected parliament renamed the republic Moldova, adopted a flag similar to Romania's and declared Moldavian the official language...
However much Moldavians want autonomy from Moscow, they are not about to tolerate fractures in their own republic. When the Gagauz went ahead with elections for a separate parliament, the Moldavian government declared a state of emergency, cut telephone lines and set up blockades to seal off the minority region. After Moldavian and Gagauz leaders began negotiations to avert violence last week, reports that the Dniester republic planned to move up their own parliamentary elections incited the bloodshed outside Dubossary...
Sergeant Viktor Nazaro, 23, a Ukrainian from Uzhdano, was captured by the Afghan insurgents while serving with a reconnaissance unit in the northern town of Kunduz in 1984. Private Leonid Vilko, 24, a Moldavian stationed at Bagram air base north of Kabul, was taken prisoner the same year while trying to defect to the West...
...Kropotkinskaya Cafe is already competing is by serving the rarest thing in the Moscow restaurant world: courtesy. Customers are greeted by a courtly doorman who apologizes for the delay. The waiters startle women by holding chairs for them. In the evenings two Moldavian musicians serenade diners with folk and gypsy tunes. Fyodorov strolls among the tables greeting customers and topping up glasses of chilled fruit juice. The restaurant so far is nonalcoholic, but the partners hope to obtain permission to serve wine. The menu, chalked on a blackboard, offers hors d'oeuvres of cold tongue, crudites and home-pickled vegetables...