It is now Europe's sixth-largest economy, a major transit route for Europe's energy needs, and a serious regional power.
Taking advantage of public transportation is a great idea- provided that you live in an area with a strong public transit route.
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One of them is Talib Ayombekov, the border police chief in an area that serves as a key transit route for Afghan narcotics exports.
The latest package of incentives included offers of help to develop civilian nuclear energy and in becoming a leading transit route for Central Asian oil.
Central America is increasingly a transit route for Mexican drug gangs.
For America, it provides a vital transit route to Afghanistan.
It has become even more crucial as a potential transit route for Europe-bound natural gas from energy-rich Azerbaijan and Central Asia, as well as from Iraq (and eventually Iran).
Its president, Islam Karimov, agreed to the use of his country as a transit route for non-lethal supplies, and might offer America other facilities if Manas does indeed close.
Customs officers also acknowledge that the Thai authorities have for years been notorious for turning a blind eye to wildlife smuggling, making Thailand an easy 'transit route' between Africa and China.
That is the geo-strategic dream which Turkey cherishes - that it will be the main transit route for oil and gas flowing from the Caspian and central Asia to world markets.
Without ratification, we put at risk the coalition that we have built to put pressure on Iran, and the transit route through Russia that we use to equip our troops in Afghanistan.
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Should visitors want to stop by the Richmond Oval, located 14 km outside Vancouver, they can take advantage of the newly expanded, Olympics-inspired Canada Line light-rail transit route, which connects Richmond to downtown Vancouver and the airport.
Meanwhile, Israel resumed some fuel shipments to Gaza on Wednesday, a week after Palestinian militants shot and killed two Israeli civilian workers at the Nahal Oz fuel terminal -- the only transit route for delivering fuel supplies to Gaza.
Yet, to the many in Iran who would like better relations with the West, evidence that al-Qaeda has used Iran as a refuge, as a transit route, and perhaps even as a staging post for attacks, is a dangerous embarrassment.
However, Belarus has been able to overcome some of these economic difficulties due to its key location as a transit route for the raw material transported between Russia and other former Soviet Republics to Western Europe, and to large Russian subsidies.
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The foundation for Islamist extremism was laid in the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, when Dagestan became a transit route for jihadis from the Middle East who volunteered to fight the Kremlin in the separatist war in neighboring Chechnya.
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Honduras has long been seen as a transit route for cocaine smuggled from Colombia to the US, with much of the drugs flown into remote airstrips by light aircraft and then moved on to Guatemala and Mexico to reach the North American market.
The task of balancing the promotion of democracy with safeguarding America's security interests became harder still as Mrs Clinton travelled eastward to Azerbaijan an authoritarian state, yet an important provider of non-Russian oil and gas and a vital transit route for America's troops to Afghanistan.
Last year Bath and North East Somerset Council opted to scrap a rapid transit bus route through the city and shelve plans for a park-and-ride at Bathampton Meadows.
The men were transit passengers, en route to Dubai from Bangkok.
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Garlic is also being cleared for transit through EU territory but unloaded en route to its destination.
Charging motorists for scarce road space, with most of the revenues being used to finance improvements in bus, rail or urban mass-transit systems, is the only sensible route to restraint.
He has allowed Syria to be used as a transit point for al-Qaeda terrorists en route to Iraq.
The new route means Russia can bypass traditional transit countries such as Ukraine and Poland, which have strained relations with Moscow.
With Urban Guidance users are able to integrate public transportation into their route, complete with detailed itineraries of transit stops.
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Brazil is said to have become an important transit point for cocaine shipments from Bolivia, Peru and Colombia on route towards Europe and Africa.
Together, they worked out a new route that would reduce the co-occurrence of whales and ships by 81% and increased the transit time of ships by between nine and 22 minutes.
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