Across Beijing, residents tried to carry on with their lives, despite the parade's extensive disruptions to traffic.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

You've had civil war and other disruptions, you've had poor governance in many countries that has not allowed the economy to grow and,in particular, has not allowed poor people to share in the benefits of growth."

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The Nabucco pipeline aims to bypass Russia and Ukraine, after natural gas price disputes between the two neighbors led to serious disruptions in supplies to the rest of Europe earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11