1.   ...the former Soviet bloc.

2.   Other former Eastern bloc countries also face growing concern over their ageing nuclear power stations.

3.   The former Eastern bloc countries are widely recognised as having a potential comparative advantage in agriculture.

4.   Mr Ruddick said more plants had been exhibited than ever before from former Eastern bloc countries, including the Commonwealth of Independent States and Czechoslovakia.

5.   A party of European journalists, some from the former Eastern bloc, will also be touring the town.

6.   Among others, China, parts of Latin American and the former Soviet bloc, even Israel, fit that category.

7.   American forces also are learning from former Soviet bloc forces in an attempt to forge new relationships.

8.   As a member of the former Socialist bloc, Hungary also had trade ties with states such as Iraq, Iran and Libya.

9.   As democracy and democratic reforms have brought increasing prosperity to many in the former communist bloc, the Roma have been largely left out.

10.   Approval made the United States the fifth NATO member to sign off on adding the three former Soviet bloc countries.