In 2009,Russians marked 300 years since their country defeated Sweden in the decisive Battle of Poltava, in which Russia replaced that Scandinavian country as the great power of Northern Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Major measures of United States markets have closed with their biggest one-day losses since the financial crisis of two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2011.08.12

In all three of America's biggest cities, murder rates have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1960s.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Since nineteen ninety-eight, fifty-two women scientists from twenty-six countries have been recognized for their work.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

And their original meanings are long since forgotten.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

Their infection rate has doubled since nineteen ninety-six.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

But that is not expected to stop prosecutors from outlining their most important case since former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

This is Miami's Little Havana, where Cuban immigrants and their children have lived,worked, and shopped since the early 1960s.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

In the nearly two decades since the Cairo conference, at least 17 countries have liberalized their abortion laws.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Daryl Kimball says since the START-One treaty was signed, the United States and Russia have slashed their strategic nuclear arsenals even more.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

IOM has been providing humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable internally displaced people, returnees and other women and their families since 2003.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Since he was attacked, the Yellows have brought in their own security guards from around the country to protect his rare rallies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

And on the night of November 9, tens of thousands of Berliners flocked to the wall which had divided their city since 1961.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

This was highly unusual, since most places in the South have tried to paint over or tear down remnants of their segregationist past.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Australia and New Zealand's relations with and their small South Pacific neighbor,Fiji, have been in decline since an army coup in December 2006.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Dr.Chris Brasher served in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where according to MSF, more than four million people have lost their lives since 1997.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

No other act had topped both charts since 1983, when Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton achieved that feat with their duet, "Islands In The Stream."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Since then, he has been drawing attention to the needs of tens of thousands of Haitians who lost their homes and relatives in the disaster.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

The United Nations says up to 150,000 people in Yemen have been forced to flee their homes since the intermittent fighting first began in 2004.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

Ties between Washington and New Delhi are at perhaps their warmest since Indian independence.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

Palestinian leaders on Sunday stuck to their demands that Israel stop all settlement activity before any resumption of peace talks that have been stalled since December.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

McJilton says since the downturn began, the number of their Tokyo clients has doubled.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The stock market gave a resounding vote of confidence to the Geithner plan as stocks rallied by nearly seven percent, their biggest one-day gain since October.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Much has changed since that time. Sobriety,his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman and the birth of their eight-month-old daughter,Sunday Rose, gave him a new perspective on life.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19