1.   Meanwhile, the small and weak republics have suffered significant economic losses.

2.   Since the war in Chechnya, the republic has suffered drastic economic decline and instability.

3.   The republic suffers when one party exerts a stranglehold on the political process, and when important decisions are made behind closed doors or in the dead of night.

4.   When that happens, the republic will suffer more than it has already.

5.   But the Serb republic suffers from high unemployment and other catastrophic economic problems, low morale and a weakened military that Plavsic blames on Karadzic.

6.   The three former Soviet republics are suffering from the combined effects of war, natural disasters and economic crisis, the Commission said.

7.   This former Soviet republic has suffered outbreaks of cholera, diphtheria and other water-borne diseases in recent years.