Some 500, 000 workers from the former Soviet bloc have registered with Britain's Home Office since 2004.
You even get a little exposure to former Soviet bloc countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Much of what is smuggled through Syria into Iraq is equipment manufactured in former Soviet bloc countries, he said.
It was harsh medicine, but the Polish economy recovered faster than more gradual reformers in the old Soviet bloc.
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While indisputable in the abstract, this proposition is highly debatable in the context of the former Soviet bloc today.
Poland, Hungary and other members from the former Soviet bloc - set to benefit most from the spending plans - are opposed to any cuts.
Unfortunately, there is considerable evidence that Olivetti is not the only Western manufacturer of machine tools to have transferred strategically significant equipment to the Soviet bloc.
Russia has been granted a special consultative status with NATO, but Yeltsin failed to convince the Atlantic alliance to rule out future membership for former Soviet bloc countries.
There was inherent drama in Brandt's career, as he "normalized" relations with East Germany and the Soviet bloc, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.
The flood of money that came to Cyprus got channeled toward the usual excesses: lavish homes on the southern coast, bank branches in the former Soviet bloc, Greek government bonds.
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.
The idea of applying these fracing techniques to Europe is appealing, especially in Eastern and Central Europe, where the former Soviet bloc countries still largely depend on imported natural gas from Russia for domestic consumption.
Almost all Soviet Bloc borrowers already receive substantially lower interest rates and more generous terms and conditions on loans from Western banks than, for example, Latin American debtor nations, not to mention government guaranteed credits.
The Kremlin is especially upset over plans to install components of the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, both former Soviet Bloc countries that are now members of NATO and the European Union.
Not content with that extraordinary achievement -- and not willing to trust in its permanence, Robert Krieble embarked on a heroic personal effort to consolidate freedom's victory by helping democracy and free enterprise take root throughout the former Soviet bloc.
Not only has the U.S. benefited from a fluid labor market in recent decades, but now we see in European GDPs the apparent payoff from an opening to industrious newcomers, especially from the former Soviet bloc (see our recent report from the U.K.).
Baker arrived in Tallahassee the morning after the election and was joined by two longtime aides, Margaret Tutwiler and Robert Zoellick, a plug-in rescue squad that had seen action in such events as the 1987 stock-market crash, the fall of the Soviet bloc and the Gulf War.
The high stakes for Western security require that the new President and his team make the adoption of a more disciplined and prudent approach to economic and financial relations with the Soviet Bloc one of the first goals of the "comprehensive reassessment" of U.S. foreign and defense policy upon which they have just embarked.
As the Bush Administration and Congress consider future steps in responding to dramatic events in Poland (and elsewhere in the Soviet bloc), it is imperative that American and Western policies be governed by a recognition that undisciplined economic and financial assistance to Poland will have unintended and undesirable repercussions both for the Poles and for the American taxpayer.
The Pentagon hard-liners think this attitude underestimates the Iraqi people and note that some former Soviet-bloc countries made the transition in a matter of months.
Mr. Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident, created a new political party, which won a large bloc of Knesset seats by arguing that only through free-market reform can Israel improve the situation of new immigrants and attract large numbers of additional immigrants.
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