She was honored for organizing a coalition of non-governmental groups and government agencies in eleven former Soviet states.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

A former soldier in the United States Army, the Puerto Rican native wrote protest poems and plays about civil rights issues in America.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

The United States has not had an ambassador in Syria since former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri was killed in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

One of them was Louis Wigfall, a former United States senator from Texas, now a Confederate officer.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Mister Prince is a former officer of the United States Navy's special forces known as SEALS.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Then,he permitted former officials of the confederacy to run for office in their states' new elections.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Former United States Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia was the Confederate secretary of state.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Former United States Senator Gaylord Nelson started the observance in nineteen seventy.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Liam Moonguaklang is a former rural resident back on a visit from the United States, where she runs a Thai restaurant.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Asked whether the United States has tried to exert pressure on Pakistan's government to reinstate former chief justice Chaudhry,Wood said.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Chris Simmons is a former U.S.counter-intelligence official involved with several recent Cuban spying cases in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

The United Nations,African Union, the United States and former colonial power France have all criticized President Tandja's move to tighten his grip on power.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Its ties with moderate Arab states Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been strained since the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

A former Israeli ambassador to Washington and member of the ruling Likud party, Zalman Shoval, says the United States and Israel are patching up their differences.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

The United States withdrew its ambassador from Damascus in 2005 following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, in which Syrian officials were implicated.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Separately,EU leaders backed boosting aid to six former Soviet states by about $800 million.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

The tensions with former Soviet satellite states has saddened Soviet veterans, including Yakov Vinnichenko, who told Russia Today television he was involved in liberating concentration camps.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Tbilisi says Moscow maintains a position that it has the right to first agree to any action another country wants to take in former-Soviet states such as Georgia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

The protest in New York brought together former political prisoners and other Iranians in exile with residents from around New York and the rest of the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.07.25

None of the other former Soviet states has done so.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

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

Zbigniew Lewicki, a specialist in American studies at the University of Warsaw, told the Polish Radio External Service that there is also concern about Russia's perceived attempts to increase its influence in former Soviet satellite states, including Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17