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Kishinev

American  
[kish-uh-nef, -nawf, kyi-shi-nyawf] / ˈkɪʃ əˌnɛf, -ˌnɔf, kjɪ ʃɪˈnjɔf /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Moldova, in the central part.


Kishinev British  
/ kiʃiˈnjɔf /

noun

  1. the Russian name for Chişinǎu

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“In the same Kishinev, right now, we’re saving Jews,” Mr. Bennett added.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2022

Lieberman, who is sixty, was born in Kishinev, now in Moldova—the site of an infamous pogrom in 1903.

From The New Yorker Jun. 1, 2019

Mr. Lieberman, 60, was born in Kishinev, now the capital of Moldova, and emigrated to Israel at 20.

From New York Times Nov. 14, 2018

The same is with Nistru and Chisinau to the opposite of Russian spelling Dniestr and Kishinev.

From Economist Nov. 19, 2013

A similar school was opened in Kishinev by Stern, and in the early "forties" there was hardly a Jewish community of note without one or more of such Jewish public institutions.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin

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