Irgun
Irgun (Hebrew, in full
Irgun Zvai Leumi, ‘National Military Organization’; byname ETZEL) An underground
ZIONIST terrorist group dedicated to the foundation of a Jewish state, active (1937–48) in Palestine against Arabs and later Britons. Under the leadership of Menachem
BEGIN from 1944, it blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem (22 July 1946), with the loss of 91 lives. It was disbanded when its objectives were achieved with the creation of Israel.
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Trans-Dniester urges more Russian peacekeepers in separatist region, citing danger of military confrontation with Moldovan authorities
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 8/31/2004; ; 668 words
; ...CHISINAU, Moldova Trans-Dniester asked Tuesday for...to the separatist region, saying there was...blocked exports from Trans-Dniester. The breakaway region retaliated by cutting...refused to grant Trans-Dniester independence, saying...
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Ukrainians from Trans-Dniester rally in Kiev to demand the right to vote
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 9/23/2004; 409 words
; ...from Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region rallied Thursday outside...new crisis erupted in the region earlier this year after Trans-Dniester's authorities forcibly...Moldovan-language schools. Trans-Dniester leaders have...
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Moldovan prosecutors charge Trans-Dniester official with 'aiding and abetting murder'
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 9/25/2004; 553 words
; ...Saturday charged a top official in the breakaway region of Trans-Dniester with "aiding and abetting murder" for releasing...After his release, Soin, who is an officer in the Trans-Dniester security forces, created illegal "paramilitary...
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Separatists block railway between Moldova and Trans-Dniester
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 8/3/2004; ; 477 words
; ...CHISINAU, Moldova Authorities in the breakaway region of Trans-Dniester blocked one of two railway links to Moldova after...increasingly tense situation between Moldova and Trans-Dniester. Moldovan railway authorities left for Trans...
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Ukraine proposes autonomy for Trans-Dniester within Moldova's boundaries
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/20/2005; ; 497 words
; ...dispute between neighboring Moldova and its breakaway Trans-Dniester region. The proposal, posted on the Foreign Ministry...a six-month plan that would grant autonomy to Trans-Dniester, but keep it within Moldova's borders and under...
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Trans-Dniester Votes to Join Russia
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/18/2006; 700+ words
; ...overwhelming majority of voters in the breakaway Trans-Dniester region approved the separatist government's bid to eventually...won't recognize. Pyotr Denisenko, head of the Trans-Dniester Central Election Commission, said 97.1 percent...
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TRANS-DNIESTER PARLIAMENT SPEAKER THANKS YELTSIN.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 1/1/2000; 350 words
; ...continue pursuing a balanced and well-weighted trans-Dniester policy. "The meetings that we have had with Vladimir...will preserve the continuity of policy towards the trans-Dniester region, with which Russia is tied by historical, geopolitical...
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Trans-Dniester may soon hold referendum on status, chief diplomat says
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 7/28/2004; ; 457 words
; ...s breakaway Trans-Dniester province on Wednesday...seeking to join Russia. Trans-Dniester broke away from Moldova...Russian and Ukrainian region that the ex-Soviet...past two weeks after Trans-Dniester authorities started closing...
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Ukraine, Moldova, Trans-Dniester reach agreement on unblocking railway traffic
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 8/5/2004; ; 459 words
; ...Moldova and its separatist Trans-Dniester region reached an agreement...separatists in Trans-Dniester in 1992, withdrew from...forcibly closed two of the region's seven Moldovan-language schools. Trans-Dniester leaders have declared...
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Leaders suggest OSCE aegis of Trans-Dniester force
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/18/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...and only once the region's status is resolved...proposal. The dispute over Trans-Dniester and Russia's role...New concern about Trans-Dniester's future rose last...Ossetia _ two separatist regions of Georgia. In addition...
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Trans-Dniester Region
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Trans-Dniester Region or Transnistria...Moldova, between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian...at its widest, the Trans-Dniester Region...for union with the region. The leaders of Trans-Dniester and Moldova held talks...
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Trans-Dniester Republic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
TRANS-DNIESTER REPUBLIC The label Transnistria...lands to the west of the Dniester. The region formed part of Kievan...land stretching from the Dniester in the west to the Bug...differences between the two regions remained. Having been...
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Moldova
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...In the north and east, the Dniester River forms its approximate boundary...Moldovan terrritory between the Dniester and the Ukraine border (the predominantly Russian and Ukrainian Trans-Dniester Region). Mostly a hilly plain, Moldova...
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Tiraspol
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Tiraspol , city (1995 est. pop. 203,870), Trans-Dniester Region , E Moldova, on the Dniester River. It has diversified light industries...the predominantly Ukrainian and Russian Trans-Dniester Region proclaimed a republic, with Tiraspol...
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Commonwealth of Independent States
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...also allow for independence from Russia), and Moldova (which faced an insurgency in the Russian-dominated Trans-Dniester region) have been relatively inactive in the alliance, and in 2005 Turkmenistan became an associate member. Armenia...
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