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Moscow
The capital city of Russia .
( by extension ) The government of Russia or the Soviet Union .
1987 , Shelomoh Naḳdimon, First strike: the exclusive story of how Israel foiled Iraq's attempt to get the bomb [1] , page 40 :
Moscow said "Nyet!"
1997 , Mervin Block, Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger [2] , ISBN 1-56625-084-6 , page 154 :
Yet, a few US newscasters will go on the air at 6 pm or later and say, "Moscow said tonight.["] ... A careful writer would make his script read, "Moscow said today. ..."
2009 , Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Star, The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia [3] , ISBN 978-0-7656-2507-6 , page 184 :
In addition, Moscow argued that Georgia had violated international law by introducing its forces into South Ossetia, a move Moscow said Tbilisi had committed itself not to do under the earlier CIS-sponsored peacekeeping arrangements.
A city in Idaho , USA
A town name in Iowa , West Virginia , Wisconsin , Indiana , Pensylvania , etc. in the USA
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Capital city of Russia
Abkhaz: Москва (Mosḳvā )
Adyghe: Мэскэу (Măskăw )
Afrikaans: Moskou
Albanian: ( definite ) Moska , ( indefinite ) Moskë
Amharic: ሞስኩ (mosəku ), ሞስኮ (mosəko )
Arabic: مُوسْكُو m (moskū ), مُوسْكُو m (moskō )
Aramaic: ܡܘܣܩܒܐ
Syriac: ܡܘܣܟܘ (mōskō )
Armenian: Մոսկվա (Moskva )
Asturian: Moscú
Avar: Москва (Moskwa )
Azeri: Moskva (az)
Cyrillic: Москва (az) f
Bashkir: Мәскәү (Mäskäw )
Basque: Mosku (eu)
Belarusian: Масква́ f (Maskvá )
Bengali: মস্কো (môsko )
Bulgarian: Москва́ f (Moskvá )
Burmese: မော်စကို (mauca.kui )
Buryat: Мушхаваа (Mušxavaa ), Москва (Moskva )
Catalan: Moscou f
Chechen: Москох (Moskoχ ), Москва (Moskwa )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 莫斯科 (zh) (Mòsīkē )
Chuvash: Мускав (Muskav ), Москва (Moskva )
Crimean Tatar: Moskva
Czech: Moskva (cs) f
Danish: Moskva
Dhivehi: މޮސްކޯ (moskō )
Dutch: Moskou (nl) n
Dzongkha: མོསི་ཀོ (mosi ko )
Erzya: Москов (Moskov ), Москва (Moskva )
Esperanto: Moskvo
Estonian: Moskva (et)
Faroese: Moskva , Muskó ( dated )
Finnish: Moskova (fi)
French: Moscou (fr) f
Galician: Moscova (gl) f
Georgian: მოსკოვი (mosḳovi )
German: Moskau (de) n
Greek: Μόσχα (el) f (Móscha )
Gujarati: મૌસ્કો (mauskō )
Hawaiian: Mokekao
Hebrew: מוסקבה f (moskvá )
Hindi: मास्को m (Māsko ), मॉस्को m (Mosko )
Hungarian: Moszkva (hu)
Icelandic: Moskva (is) f
Ido: Moskva
Indonesian: Moskwa , Moskow
Interlingua: Moscova
Irish: Moscó m
Italian: Mosca (it) f
Japanese: モスクワ (ja) (Mosukuwa )
Kabardian: Мэзкуу (Măzk°w )
Kalmyk: Москва (Moskva )
Kannada: ಮಾಸ್ಕೋ (māskō )
Karachay-Balkar: Москва
Karelian: Moskva
Kashubian: Mòskwa f
Kazakh: Мәскеу (Mäskew )
Khmer: រដ្ឋរុស្ស៊ី (roat ruhsii ), មូស្គូ (muuskuu )
Komi-Permyak: Мöсква (Möskva )
Komi-Zyrian: Канкар (Kankar ), Мӧсква (Möskva ), Москва (Moskva )
Korean: 모스크바 (ko) (Moseukeuba )
Kurdish: Mosko (ku) , مۆسکۆ (Mosko )
Kyrgyz: Москва (Moskva )
Lak: Москав (Moskaw )
Lao: ມົດສະກູ (mot sa kū )
Latin: Muscovia f , Moscua f
Latvian: Maskava f
Lezgi: Москва (Mosk°a )
Limburgish: Moskou n
Lithuanian: Maskva f
Luxembourgish: Moskau (lb)
Macedonian: Мо́сква f (Móskva )
Malagasy: Môsikao
Malay: Moscow
Malayalam: മോസ്കോ (mōskō )
Maltese: Moska
Maori: Mohikau
Marathi: मॉस्को (mosko )
Mari:
Eastern Mari: Моско (Mosko )
Moksha: Моску (Mosku ), Москва (Moskva )
Mongolian: Москва (Moskva )
Navajo: Móskow
Nepali: मास्को (māsko ), मस्को (masko )
Norwegian: Moskva (no)
Old Church Slavonic: Москъва́ f (Moskŭvá )
Oriya: ମସ୍କୋ (maskō )
Ossetian: Мӕскуы (Mæsk°y )
Pashto: مسکو (maskō ), موسکوا (mōskwā )
Persian: مسکو (fa) (mosko )
Polish: Moskwa (pl) f
Portuguese: Moscou (pt) f , Moscovo (pt) f
Punjabi: ਮੌਸਕੋ (mauskō )
Romanian: Moscova (ro) f
Cyrillic: Москова f
Russian: Москва́ (ru) f (Moskvá )
Rusyn: Москва́ f (Moskvá )
Scottish Gaelic: Mosgo
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Москва f
Roman: Moskva (sh) f
Sicilian: Mosca f
Silesian: Moskwa f
Sinhalese: මොස්කව් (moskav )
Slovak: Moskva f
Slovene: Móskva f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Moskwa f
Upper Sorbian: Moskwa f
Spanish: Moscú (es) m
Swahili: Misko , Moscow
Swedish: Moskva (sv)
Tagalog: Mosku
Tajik: Маскав (Maskav ), Москва (Moskva )
Tamil: மாஸ்கோ (māskō )
Tatar: Мәскәү (Mäskäü )
Telugu: మాస్కో (māskō )
Thai: มอสโก (môtgoh )
Tibetan: མོ་སི་ཁོ། (mo si kho ), མོ་སི་ཁའོ། (mo si kha'o )
Tongan: Mosekou
Turkish: Moskova (tr)
Turkmen: Moskwa
Cyrillic: Москва f
Tuvan: Москва (Moskva )
Udmurt: Муско (Musko ), Москва (Moskva )
Ukrainian: Москва́ f (Moskvá )
Urdu: ماسکو m (Māsko )
Uyghur: موسكۋا (moskwa )
Uzbek: Moskva
Cyrillic: Москва f
Vietnamese: Moskva ( modern ) , Mạc Tư Khoa ( traditional ) , Mát-xcơ-va ( phonetic, rare )
Walloon: Moscou
Welsh: Moskva f
West Frisian: Moskou n
Western Panjabi: ماسکو
Yakut: Москва (Moskva )
Yiddish: מאָסקװע (moskve )
a name of a town in the USA
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