Economies in central and eastern Europe have been hit hard by the worldwide credit crisis and less demand for exports in western Europe.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

The World Bank and two European development banks agreed last week to provide up to thirty-one billion dollars in aid to central and eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

During the period of the Cold War, an estimated 30 million people in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union listened to him on the radio.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

They traveled in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe,the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate!

VOA: special.2011.02.06

The next largest group,twenty-one percent, were serving in Eastern Europe or Central Asia.

VOA: special.2011.03.28

He grew up in La Plata,Argentina, in a Jewish family from eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

In Eastern Europe, the number of new H.I.V.infections has leveled off.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

His parents had come to the United States from eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

The immigrants now were coming from southern and eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

They had moved to the United States from eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

The effects could reach beyond central and eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

In Eastern Europe, the epidemic has leveled off.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

While Moscow insists that this will lead to more stability in Europe, some analysts and officials in Eastern Europe are unconvinced.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Clinton repeatedly pressed the issue during her tour of Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus, which concluded in Georgia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Kramer says such a public stance could backfire since President Obama is not too enthusiastic about missile defenses in Eastern Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

Biden's trip to Eastern Europe comes as the region commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

If he had not done that, I think none of the reforms which occurred in Eastern Europe would have taken place .

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

And,the Kremlin insists Soviet forces freed the Baltics and Eastern Europe from Nazi tyranny.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

And women from Eastern Europe and Iraq are forced into prostitution."

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

His one-day visit to Bucharest was part of a trip through Eastern Europe intended to reassure Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic that America's commitment to the region remains strong.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

" let the leaders of Eastern Europe know that if they took a path of reform the Soviet Union would not interfere militarily as it had done before Hungary Czechoslovakia .

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Poland and other former Soviet satellite states say however that the invasion came after Soviet Union leader Josef Stalin reached an agreement with Germany that included dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The general also called for NATO nations to strengthen their ability to defend the alliance's home territory, in order to ease concerns among some new members in Eastern Europe in the wake of Russia's invasion of Georgia last year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan rejected the criticism from McCain and other Republicans that the decision had "bruised" U.S.ties with Eastern Europe, saying that NATO already supports President Obama's decision and that Poland and the Czech Republic are satisfied with other missiles they have been offered.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

This,however,did not greatly reduce immigration from eastern and southern Europe.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Now,most immigrants were coming from eastern and southern Europe.

VOA: special.2010.05.20