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Dnepropetrovsk

/ dnɪprəpɪˈtrɔfsk /

noun

  1. a city in E central Ukraine on the Dnieper River: a major centre of the metallurgical industry. Pop: 1 036 000 (2005 est) Former name (1787–1796, 1802–1926)Yekaterinoslav


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In 1993 he went to work as an intelligence operative in his hometown of Dnepropetrovsk, the fading industrial powerhouse where his father had served for many years as a senior KGB officer.

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“The purpose is to prevent the spread of the Kremlin infection,” he told a press conference in Dnepropetrovsk.

Enter Igor Kolomoiskiy, an imposing oligarch and the governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region.

The two hundred and sixty miles from there to the Dnepropetrovsk was a little more difficult, but not terribly so.

His course changed at Dnepropetrovsk, from northeast to northwest, for the next two hundred fifty miles.

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