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Gorbachev’s anti-drinking campaign severely affected vineyards in the Soviet republics of Ukraine and Moldova but left Russian vineyards almost untouched, with only 30,000 out of 200,000 hectares destroyed during the campaign. The current damage,...
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"It was the best decision I ever made," he said. He highlighted the large number of UF alumni in Peace Corps and the work of one graduate, Lindsay McDaniel, in the Eastern European country of Moldova. McDaniel works at the only shelter for domestic...
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Moldova's Alexandr Pliuschin poses during the presentation of the cycling Leopard Trek team in Bereldange on February 16, 2012. View Photo »
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Onoje(c) was beaten by thugs after Moldova's ex-president made racist remarks. ©Amnesty International Fleeing the civil war in his native Sierra Leone 13 years ago, John Onoje hoped for a better lot in his newly-adopted home – Moldova. Last Sunday John...
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Beiersdorf Bedros Kalfayan, general manager of skin care and cosmetics company Beiersdorf Bulgaria, will oversee the parent's company units in Romania and Moldova starting April 1. Following company restructuring, Beiersdorf's subsidiaries in the three...
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A woman exercises in a fur coat on an elliptical machine at an outdoor park in Chisinau, Moldova, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Since the end of January, Eastern Europe has been pummeled by a deep freeze, which has brought the heaviest blizzards in recent... View Photo »
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Mobile operator Orange Moldova has become the general partner of the public broadcaster IPNA Teleradio Moldova for the Eurovision 2012 song contest. Subscribers of the operator will be offered downloads of all songs participating in the national stage...
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The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a small landlocked country in eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east and south. Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1812 and reunited with other Romanian lands in Romania in 1918. After changing hands during... Full Article
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Moldova's Prime Minister Vlad Filat (C) speaks to Yevgeny Shevchuk (L), president of Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region, as Ukraine's Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko looks on after their meeting in Odessa January 27, 2012.
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