Russia, they say, is too big and too backward to be governed exactly like a western country.
Never, in recent times, has an economy of a Western country shrunk so fast - 16% in just four years.
Saddam, who faced a U.S.-led alliance in the 1991 Gulf War following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, said he doubted that Washington would respond violently if the attackers were from a Western country.
Such behavior by politicians and such a public mood stand in stark contrast to Russia's temper earlier in this decade, when the first postcommunist government, headed by the same Mr. Yeltsin, vowed to pursue cooperation with the West and made good on this pledge by adopting political and economic reforms designed to transform Russia into a Western country.
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In a coup-prone country in western Africa a few years ago, I heard this story over dinner.
More galling still for Russian observers was the spectacle, a few days later, of Mr Clinton receiving a rapturous welcome in Bulgaria, a country where pro-western and pro-Russian groups have, until recently, been finely balanced.
While that may not match the hordes who flock to Glastonbury, it is still remarkable in a country where western-style rock music was all but unknown until about 20 years ago.
Seven or eight years ago you could make quite a nice living, at western country sort of pay rates, doing this sort of low level writing work.
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The 1.5 million inhabitants of Erdos, a city rich in natural resources in the otherwise poor western part of the country, will have a higher GDP per capita than Hong Kong in three years time.
"No other Western democratic country has a site where the government promises to respond to a petition with 100, 000 signatures, " she said.
If, for example, they have to build export facilities, the lengths of pipelines in a country the size of western Europe are daunting.
He got his musical start in 1953 playing lead guitar in a country-and-western swing band and became a full-time professional musician in the 1960s.
In a country the size of Western Europe, distances are enormous.
Until recently, the country - which is a minor oil producer - was unable to export oil from its existing fields in the north and east of the country because of a Western embargo.
They tell the story of a small, poor country on the north western fringe of Europe, striving to take its place on the international stage.
The Kabul church's origins date back to 1921, when Italy became one of the first Western nations to recognize Afghanistan as a sovereign country independent from Britain.
Angola lies on the western coast of southern Africa, a country of 18 million people living in an oil- and diamond-rich area about twice the size of Texas.
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One worry here is that Western governments may pull back from a country run by Mr. Kenyatta because he is set to go on trial at the International Criminal Court for stoking violence after the 2007 elections.
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While many acquaintances in China are much more interested in Western ideas, he still thinks a lot about the country and its culture.
More than 1.5 million people were left homeless in a country that was already the poorest in the Western Hemisphere and racked by crisis.
South African politicians insist that they are worried about the long-term cost and efficacy of such drugs, and fret that western drug makers may use the country as a testing ground for markets elsewhere.
In the report, detailed further in the link here to the left, ECA notes that the U.S. lower tax burden and overall cheaper cost of living makes it the No. 1 country in the Western world to earn a living as a middle manager.
Too often Western multinationals mistake hiring a sales-driven manager when the country market and organization requires a top leader.
The country -- a long strip that spans the western coast of South America -- is rich in mineral resources, particularly copper.
Mr Rajapaksa's ruling coalition has won a series of regional elections, most recently in Western Province, the country's richest, on April 25th.
Hearing them talk of tax cuts in a country whose tax take is among the lowest in the Western world likewise has not gone down well under the dour skies of north Europe.
For example, Britain locks up more children in secure detention than any other western European country (though the total has recently fallen a bit), in part, say some, because of the Bulger furore.
Like Belarus, Ukraine was forced to start paying more for its Russian gas in 2006, but not before Gazprom reduced its supplies, leading to a knock-on reduction in gas passing through the country to western Europe.
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