Proper noun

(en proper noun)

The capital city of Russia.

(by extension) The government of Russia or the Soviet Union.

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, year=1997 , author=Mervin Block , title=Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger , chapter= citation , isbn=1-56625-084-6 , page=154 , passage=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. ..."}}

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, year=2009 , author=Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Star , title=The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia , chapter= citation , isbn=978-0-7656-2507-6 , page=184 , passage=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

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

a city in Russia, 196 kilometres south of Moscow, centre of Ryazan oblast.