11.   In other countries Muslim populations reflect former colonial empires.

12.   It is sophisticated and European, with money to buy back part of its former empire, as it is doing in Cuba.

13.   Many young Tatars have ended up in prison, he said, because of limited professional opportunities and other forms of discrimination in the former Soviet empire.

14.   Racing against time, the pope is setting down footprints all across the former Soviet empire that he hopes a successor will not dare ignore.

15.   Refugees from all parts of the former empire are coming to Russia and bringing with them an incredible collection of diseases.

16.   She has travelled the former empire for so many years.

17.   The most dramatic burst of democratization has come in the former Soviet empire.

18.   This seems to have been the first shareholders meeting of an American corporation ever held in the former communist empire, which in this case had one advantage.

19.   Unlike the other countries in transition, Russia is a former empire that has still not defined its relations with its neighbors and its character as a federal state.

20.   Despite Nigeria, the former empire gathers in good shape With Commonwealth-Glance, Commonwealth-Births,