Even nations which have implemented serious reform programs, like the Baltic States, could make further improvements.
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Latvia scored lowest of the three Baltic states in the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom.
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The remaining 50 percent is imported from the Soviet Union and the other Baltic states.
Should other countries, such as the Baltic States, eventually be allowed in as well?
According to Dr Philip Davies, SIS ran similar operations in Ukraine, and the Baltic States.
If no, does the President intend to negotiate a separate trade agreement with the Baltic states?
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The alliance's ability to defend the Baltic states depends almost wholly on American involvement.
The National Salvation Front has also announced plans calculated to provoke incidents in the Baltic States.
They said they were there as part of joint manoeuvres with the Baltic states' armies.
The Baltic states, Hungary and Poland went through costly banking crises in the early 1990s.
Russia is especially concerned about the status of Baltic states Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
The Baltic states and Poland are also working on building a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania.
Both developments marked the growing clamour within the Baltic states for greater freedom from the Soviet Union.
This placed him in tactical alliance with independence campaigners in the Ukraine, the Baltic states and Georgia.
Heavy-handed pressure is similarly intensifying against Ukraine, the Baltic states, Tajikistan and elsewhere in the old Soviet Union.
The Irish are in what can only be called a depression, along with the Baltic states and Hungary.
Relations with neighbours, even twitchy ones like the Baltic states, have generally improved since Mr Putin took over.
Apart from the Baltic states, Nato on Thursday formally invited Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to join the alliance.
The so-called "energy bridge" will be the second to connect the Baltic states to the wider EU electricity network.
In other countries, such as Poland and the Baltic states, it looked different: one occupation gave way to another.
More significantly, it has pushed NATO into agreeing to draw up military contingency plans to defend the Baltic states.
But it is rare (the Baltic states aside) in the old Soviet Union.
Lithuania has the largest economy of the three Baltic States and suffered a substantial GDP drop in 2008 and 2009.
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The most obvious, lingering effect of the Non-Aggression Pact is the continuing occupation of the Baltic states by the USSR.
During his European trip President Bush suggested that the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania be admitted to NATO.
Does the President believe that Soviet observers at the GATT will supply the Baltic states with those trade lessons learned?
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He said the cable was just the beginning of integrating the Baltic states more closely into the EU's energy network.
Among Russia's immediate neighbours, only the Baltic states, which slipped into NATO when Russia was weak, can claim such protection.
In the event of a Russian threat, say to the Baltic states or Poland, would NATO act or merely consult?
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You have probably never heard of Mr Zagars, because he hails from Latvia, the second-biggest of the three tiny Baltic states.
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