Or what is presently taking place in the former Soviet Union and in other countries eager to relocate noxious materials from their immediate backyards?

And the same thing was happening throughout Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union, where migration of workers is just as much of a phenomenon today as it was in 2002.

There were reasons for the delay – not least the determination of the eastern and central Europeans to join the alliance that they had seen as such an effective defence against the Soviet Union.