1.   It has largely abandoned communism, but it has not fully embraced capitalism.

2.   Nowhere has a country abandoned communism on account of one.

3.   Although Russia has abandoned communism, Vietnam still considers Moscow an old friend.

4.   President Lee Teng-hui said Friday that China will have to abandon communism before it can reunite with Taiwan.

5.   Russia is in danger of undergoing another change in its political system less than a decade after abandoning communism, former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin warned Saturday.

6.   The Soviet Union broke up when its various republics abandoned communism and declared their independence.

7.   Yet while Polish language and culture is kin to Ukrainian, Poland abandoned communism much more swiftly and smoothly than its neighbor.