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.
Pro-Western leader Mikhail Saakashvili says the election will give him a mandate to continue his reforms.
France has attempted to end the stalemate between the pro-Western government and the Syrian-backed opposition.
Already, tourists are cancelling trips to poor but pro-western Arab states such as Jordan and Egypt.
Lebanon's elected, pro-Western government has long been locked in a power struggle with Hezbollah.
Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule also has strained relations with Bhutto, who shares his secularist, pro-Western views.
This free-market, pro-western party, which did better than expected in the December parliamentary elections, now looks split.
The advantage of Georgia is that it is seen as the most pro-Western and business-friendly country in the region.
In Lebanon itself, the large, pro-Western liberal elite is palpably at a loss.
The Kremlin's current pro-western foreign-policy stance puts it firmly in the consumers' camp.
The pro-Western Saakashvili came to power in Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003 and was elected president in 2004 and 2008.
Mr Yushchenko presented himself as a pro-western, free-market reformer who would clean up corruption and enforce the rule of law.
Another hope is that Mr Yanukovich will mend the rift between Kiev and Moscow opened by Mr Yushchenko's pro-western orientation.
Ashfaq Kayani, who is widely expected to maintain the army's pro-Western policies.
That operation expanded to an Israeli attempt to install a pro-western government that was willing to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
Mr Cem announced to a press conference that he is forming a new pro-western political party with Mr Ozkan and Mr Dervis.
UN's secretary-general in 1981, but the Soviet Union vetoed his candidature, claiming he was too pro-western, and vetoed him again in 1991.
Serbia's pro-Western Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic, has been involved in an mounting power struggle with President Kostunica, a moderate nationalist, in recent months.
Mr Shevardnadze's pro-western party did rather well, getting 42% of the vote and, thanks to the country's electoral system, an absolute majority of seats.
So Americans should not conclude that Hussein is becoming more pro-Western.
Indeed, many members of the anti-Syrian coalition are anything but pro-Western.
He met on Friday with officials in Lebanon, less than a week after a pro-Western coalition made strides against a Hezbollah-led bloc in parliamentary elections.
The pro-Western Arab countries most closely involved, in particular Egypt, are still keen to bolster Mr Abbas's party and keep Hamas out of the negotiating game.
He was sentenced to 35 years in prison by a court in Serbia for the part he played in the assassination of the pro-Western prime minister.
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It's granted landing and naval visiting rights to the U.S. The Dubai government, which is to say Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is pro-western and free-market.
Milo Djukanovic, the pro-western president of Montenegro, Serbia's rebellious little partner in what is left of the Yugoslav federation, might then be invited to nominate a successor.
Tony Blair sent a senior foreign-policy adviser, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, to Syria to find out whether President Bashar Assad could be tempted into playing a more pro-Western role.
We ought to focus on the things that matter, and on those issues Ivanishvili has remained just as robustly pro-Western as you would expect a Georgian politician to be.
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That brief, decisive showdown, followed by elections last year that preserved the balance of power narrowly in favour of the pro-Western majority, focused political minds on the need to compromise.
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