Any number of countries in Eastern Europe suffered terribly at the hands of the Russians.
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The malware targeted Android owners in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries in eastern Europe.
Running along the bed of the Baltic Sea, it would circumvent troublesome transit countries in eastern Europe.
Only a handful of countries in eastern Europe were affected, but the sense of insecurity spread right across the continent.
Asian and former communist countries in eastern Europe are leaving them behind.
Dedicatexpress was just one of many, many sites run out of countries in Eastern Europe that made up the underground economy, said Mr Ferguson.
Well, I think it shows that, contrary to the common media narrative, Russia is actually one of the more demographically stable countries in Eastern Europe.
After the fall of communism, most of the countries in Eastern Europe started from low economic bases, low gross domestic product per capita and low wage scales.
This has acted as a powerful spur to countries in Eastern Europe, most of whom have got rid of their death-penalty laws in the past few years.
The euro remains the natural currency (for historic, political and geographic reasons) for emerging market countries in Eastern Europe, parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
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But the graphs above show that, if anything, Russia has actually done a better job of preserving its tradition of athletic excellence than other post-communist countries in Eastern Europe.
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It is also in the midst of cutting back desperately needed oil supplies to countries in Eastern Europe such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria by some 20-30 percent.
And in the global marketplace, it is sometimes hard for a company to check out a potential business partner in a country riddled with corruption and crony relationships between tycoons and politicians - as many countries in eastern Europe and Asia notoriously are.
In many former communist countries, particularly in Eastern Europe and Africa, governments offer a "dual-track" tuition policy, where tuition is provided free to the nation's top students but a fee is charged to everyone else.
Now the new money must be directed to developing countries, especially in eastern Europe.
Since then eight other countries in eastern and central Europe have followed suit.
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Moreover, after the next enlargement to take in countries from Eastern Europe, a Europe of different speeds is surely inevitable.
To the union's elite, the 13 countries in central and eastern Europe vying for admittance to the august circle have all the appeal of squeegee men.
The Commission and national governments co-finance development projects, and former Soviet bloc countries in Central and Eastern Europe are big recipients because communism left them with some dilapidated infrastructure.
Poor infrastructure, clumsy regulation and wayward judiciaries mean that doing business in Latin America remains more difficult and costly than in many countries in Asia or eastern Europe, with which it competes.
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George Soros's Open Society programme offers one modest solution: it tops up the pay of a small group of elite public-sector workers who have returned to countries in Central and Eastern Europe after being educated abroad.
With such a long list of grievances and such deplorable conduct on the part of the Russians, it would have been perfectly understandable if any one of a dozen countries in Central and Eastern Europe waged a violent armed struggle for independence.
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In some southern African countries, half of new mothers could soon die of AIDS. Epidemics are emerging in China, India, eastern Europe and countries in the former Soviet Union.
But in some other countries - particularly in southern and eastern Europe - climate was not widely discussed.
It claimed to have evidence of covert CIA camps in at least eight countries, some of them in eastern Europe.
It has since acquired 12, 000 users in 90 countries, mostly in outsourcing hotbeds like Eastern Europe, South America and Asia.
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It features paintings, photography, drawings and video exhibitions from developing countries in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.
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The study is based on research on 250 fortunes in 22 countries in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, as well as interviews with billionaires from these emerging markets, editors of Forbes international editions and Forbes wealth analysts.
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