Word: dniester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thunderer. Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God. Then their sweating oxen strained over furrows; hives were loud with bees; joyous honeyed mead was brewed in the glades. With the arching zest of dolphins the Slavs plunged in the waters of the Vistula, Pripet, Upper Dniester rivers. At nightfall they huddled in their river bank encampments, shuddered at the moan of the werewolf, the fleet shadow of Baba-Jaga, man-eating witch. Meanwhile their more venturesome brethren, scowling pirates of the Aegean and Baltic, forgot their ferocity beneath a vibrant pattern of stars...
Rumania. A meeting between Rumanian and Russian representatives is to take place at Vienna in March. Subjects to be discussed: the Dniester frontier, the Ukrainian refugee problem, the future of Bessarabia, recognition of the Bolsheviki by Rumania...