1.   A springtime of entrepreneurship in the old Soviet bloc after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

2.   Are these interesting geopolitical trends the very last vestige of the old Soviet bloc?

3.   Clinton arrived just days after NATO invited Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to join its alliance, thus further severing their ties with the old Soviet bloc.

4.   Count all those medals the nations of the old Soviet bloc won and see where the U.S. stood.

5.   Despite the fears in the old Soviet bloc, Pehe and others say that warmer relations between Russia and NATO could be positive.

6.   Its traditional customers, governments in the old Soviet bloc, disappeared when Communism collapsed a decade ago.

7.   Redefining the mission of the Cold War alliance and possibly expanding its membership to include members of the old communist bloc.

8.   That policy ought to be reconsidered in the absence of the overwhelming conventional military threat posed by the old Soviet bloc.

9.   The alliance earlier this month admitted Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, the first additions from the old Soviet bloc.

10.   The booming sex industry of Dubi is a product of the free-market economy that is struggling to find its feet in the old Soviet bloc.