They traveled in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe,the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Within Europe, the former Soviet Union countries had the highest rate.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Mr.Medvedev was asked whether he had given Mr.Obama advice on Afghanistan, which the former Soviet Union had invaded in 1979 with disastrous results.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The moon landing was seen as the high point of a U.S.space program fueled by a decade-long space race with the former Soviet Union.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

He says reporting in the former Soviet Union can be an occupational hazard.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

While about a million Jews have immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union, only a few have been willing to leave behind the affluence of America and Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

"There were severe weather problems, not just in Russia but also in some of the other former Soviet Union countries."

VOA: special.2010.12.07

They promised to protect each other from the growing threat they saw from another former ally, the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Twenty years ago, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development was created to help former communist countries after the fall of the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2011.05.27

The 58-year-old Ghimpu and his pro-Western coalition, dubbed the 'Alliance for European Integration', seek closer ties with the European Union and want to take the former Soviet republic out of Russia's sphere of influence.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

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