The study was carried out by a panel consisting of a former States member, an economist and an independent economic consultancy group.
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One outfit, called Itera, bought gas from Gazprom and the central Asian nation of Turkmenistan, resold it on the market to Ukraine and other former Soviet states and acted as a sort of guarantor that Gazprom would be paid by indebted former Soviet states.
That was impossible without at least some of the former Confederate states joining in this ratification.
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However, some less rose-tinted precedents have recently been set by other former Soviet states.
It's probably the most progressive of the five former Soviet states in Central Asia.
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The amendment's framers clearly figured that enforcement would focus on the former Confederate states, Mr. Verrilli said.
Most of these countries are in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and the former Soviet states.
The territory of the former papal states is not even the most developed or law-abiding part of Italy.
The reversal of fortune has been abrupt for former magnet states such as Florida and Nevada (see chart).
Last week he cancelled a summit with 11 other leaders of former Soviet states, claiming a sore throat.
The Census survey found on average slightly higher reports of voting among African-American voters than among whites in former Confederate states, 67% to 62%.
Sitting on the border between two former Soviet states, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest inland sea in the world.
Mr Nazarbaev's enthusiasm for the free market has put Kazakhstan among the economic leaders of former Soviet states, but so far the population has not benefited materially.
Gallaher's LD brand is one of the biggest tobacco labels in Russia, and its Sovereign cigarettes are widely smoked in the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Another problem for Mr Estrada is Subic Bay, a former United States naval base that has been transformed, since the Americans left it in 1992, into the country's flagship export-processing zone.
GHGs in developing ones and in former Soviet states.
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The Taoiseach also made it clear that the Irish government supported talks chairman former United States Senator George Mitchell's view that there was now a basis for the decommissioning of terrorist arms.
By such means, which some asset holders have contested, Miller has been largely successful, recovering billions of dollars' worth of assets and regaining control of subsidiaries in former Soviet states and elsewhere.
MarkMonitor's study shows that 44% of the sites advertised in drug-selling spam were hosted in the U.S. China hosted 18% of the pages, while the former Soviet states gave rise to another 12%.
However important their similar historical legacies may have been, they cannot account for the differences in magnitude of the fluctuations in death rates that occurred in the former Soviet states during the early 1990s.
Opened via satellite by former United States President Bill Clinton, this two-day event was organized by UNESCO organized together with the Government of the United Arab Emirates, Varkey GEMS Foundation and the Commonwealth Business Council.
Former United States national team player Robbie Rogers recently announced he was gay on the same day he retired from the sport, while Sweden-based Anton Hysen is currently the only openly "out" player in Europe.
The emergence of leaders such as Tony Blair and George W Bush and the continuing instability in the Middle East and regional politics of Iraq, Iran and the former Soviet states remain a blindspot from the curriculum.
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There was also no sign on Tuesday of an accord on another issue at the conference -- African demands that former slave states make a formal apology for some 400 years of human trafficking up to the early 19th century, during which some 12 million people where shipped in chains to the Americas.
James L. Jones, the former top United States commander in Europe.
The approach would be similar to those issued in countries like Germany and France when Poland and other former Warsaw Pact states became EU members in 2004.
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Russia's fears intensified when in 1999 the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first former Soviet bloc states to join Nato, bringing the alliance's borders 400 miles closer to the Russian frontier.
Clearly, as German public spending will be increasingly directed toward domestic requirements -- especially those associated with revitalizing the former East German states -- Moscow will become more assertive in ensuring that its claims on Bonn's foreign assistance come before those of the fragile democratic and free market systems struggling to take hold in Central Europe.
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