Europe
... Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe. Weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kyivan Rus was incorporated into the Grand Duchy ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/a_fg.html
Europe
Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Romania, and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/b_mp.html
Europe
... code - 380; 2 new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and 3 Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans-European ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/f_cm.html
Europe
... as transshipment point for opiates and other illicit drugs from Africa, Latin America, and Turkey to Europe and Russia; Ukraine has improved anti-money-laundering controls, resulting in its removal from the ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/i_ti.html
Europe
... global approach to foreign policy; it currently is weighing the degree of its integration with continental Europe. A member of the EU, it chose to remain outside the Economic and Monetary Union ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/a_fg.html
Europe
Western Europe, islands including the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, northwest of France
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/b_mp.html
Europe
... trading power and financial center, is one of the quintet of trillion dollar economies of Western Europe. Over the past two decades, the government has greatly reduced public ownership and contained the ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/e_ec.html
Europe
... radio relay, and fiber-optic systems international: country code - 44; numerous submarine cables provide links throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and US; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (7 Atlantic Ocean ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/f_cm.html
Europe
... predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/e_ec.html
Europe
small-scale transit country for drugs mainly bound for Europe, often through sea-borne containers; law enforcement corruption; money laundering because of strict banking secrecy laws; weak border control along Brazilian frontier ...
www.exxun.com/Uruguay/i_ti.html
Europe
... the Moscow international gateway switch; after the completion of the Uzbek link to the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable, Uzbekistan will be independent of Russian facilities for international communications (2006
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/f_cm.html
Europe
... large quantities of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana transit the country from Colombia bound for US and Europe; significant narcotics-related money-laundering activity, especially along the border with Colombia and on Margarita ...
www.exxun.com/Venezuela/i_ti.html
Europe
... alliance and the Warsaw Pact nations; (f) a sharp rise in living standards in North America, Europe, and Japan; (g) increased concerns about the environment, including loss of forests, shortages of energy ...
www.exxun.com/World/a_fg.html
Europe
... classification recognizes seven, which are (from largest to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Asia and Europe are sometimes lumped together into a Eurasian continent resulting in ...
www.exxun.com/World/b_mp.html
Europe
... Externally, the central government is losing decisionmaking powers to international bodies, notably the EU. In Western Europe, governments face the difficult political problem of channeling resources away from welfare programs in order ...
www.exxun.com/World/e_ec.html
Europe
... victims are trafficked intra-regionally within East Asia and the Pacific (260,000 to 280,000 people) and Europe and Eurasia (170,000 to 210,000 people) Tier 2 Watch List: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain ...
www.exxun.com/World/i_ti.html
Europe
... moderate amounts of methaqualone, small amounts of heroin, and cocaine bound for Southern Africa and possibly Europe; a poorly developed financial infrastructure coupled with a government commitment to combating money laundering make ...
www.exxun.com/Zambia/i_ti.html
European
... Albanian victims are trafficked to Greece, Italy, Macedonia, and Kosovo, with many trafficked onward to Western European countries; children were also trafficked to Greece for begging and other forms of child labor ...
www.exxun.com/Albania/i_ti.html
European
Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% note: almost all Algerians are Berber in origin, not Arab; the minority who identify themselves as Berber live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/c_pp.html
European
Settled as early as 1000 B.C., Samoa was "discovered" by European explorers in the 18th century. International rivalries in the latter half of the 19th century were settled by an 1899 treaty ...
www.exxun.com/AmericanSamoa/a_fg.html
European
Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22%
www.exxun.com/Angola/c_pp.html
European
mixture of US and West European legal systems; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/Argentina/d_gv.html
