He explains that despite their differences the plane crash in Russia is "a great loss for the nation, which will be difficult to overcome."
VOA: standard.2010.04.10
Cigarette taxes are a vital revenue source for New York State, which has the highest-priced cigarettes in the nation - almost $15 a pack.
VOA: standard.2010.08.11
The government forecasts a 61 percent jump in gross ticket sales this year, which could turn the nation's new silver screens into boxoffice gold.
VOA: standard.2010.07.06
Lawmakers in Sierra Leone are preparing to join a seven-nation charter to protect the region's mangrove ecosystem which conservationists now say totals just 800,000 hectares.
VOA: standard.2010.03.29
Passing through the Navajo Nation, one sees tiny,isolated cabins and a few traditional hogans, which are log-and mud structures whose doorways face the morning sun.
VOA: standard.2010.03.22
"It is not the absence of crisis. It is the manner in which the crisis is going to be met and resolved that defines a nation,"
VOA: standard.2009.08.27
The U.S.and Iran are entangled in a dispute over the Persian Gulf nation's nuclear program, which the United States contends is a cover for developing weapons.
VOA: standard.2009.03.21
The United Nations Security Council later imposed sanctions on Pyongyang, which have impeded its efforts to sell conventional weapons abroad, a major source of income for the cash-strapped nation.
VOA: standard.2009.12.08
"The nation of Estonia was brutally attacked through cyber activity, where there was a directed denial of service through flooding that nation, which is very digitally advanced, with 5,000 e-mails a second,".
VOA: standard.2009.08.11
"Pakistan is a nation which could either serve as a force for stability and progress in a volatile region, or it could become the epicenter for radicalism and violence on a cataclysmic scale,".
VOA: standard.2009.05.04
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