Countries of Europe EuropeanUnion 欧盟是世界上经济最发达的地区之一，28国面积为242.0万平方千米，人口3.50亿。欧盟为世界货物贸易和服务贸易最大进出口方。欧盟对外贸易中，美国、中国、俄罗斯、瑞士为主要贸易伙伴。欧盟也是全球最不发达国家最大出口市场和最大援助者，多边贸易体系的倡导者和主要领导力量。欧盟...
Ukraine declared independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991. Its president is directly elected by voters. The prime minister is the head of the central government, which is separated along executive, legislative and judicial branches. The country’s post-Soviet political life has been content...
"We were scared to death of coming to a strange new country when the Soviet Union finally opened the door for emigration, for Jews only," she said."Our family goes back for four generations in Vinnitza in the Ukraine but we are proud and happy we took the chance. St. Louis has been...
Much of Angola’s oil wealth lies in Cabinda, a province separated from the rest of the country by the Congo River and an arm of Congo. The oil industry drives about half of the country’s gross domestic product and constitutes about 90 percent of its exports. Though also rich in diamond...
a political entity that lies between a confederation and a federation. The EU originated in Western Europe but has been expanding eastward since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The currency of most countries of the European Union, the Euro, is the most commonly used among Europeans and...
and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From 1922 to 1991 Ukraine formed part of the latter under the name Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. With the unraveling of the Soviet Union in 1990-91, however, the Ukrainian S.S.R.'s legislature declared sovereignty (July 16, 1990) and then...
In the Soviet Union, sightings of UFOs were often prompted by tests of secret military rockets. In order to obscure the true nature of the tests, the government sometimes encouraged the public's belief that these rockets might be extraterrestrial craft but eventually decided that the descriptions ...
Special case: Evacuations As Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1940, the Soviet Union has evacuated some of its most loyal collaborators so they would not be punished. This was a mirror image of the exiles: the evacuees were saved from punishment this way rather than persecuted. Spec...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and with the emerging neo-liberal turn in the Nordic countries and Europe, the left parties and the labour movement went through a crisis. This also included the institutional weakening of labour history and a decline in research on work and research emplo...
Ukraine declared independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991. Its president is directly elected by voters. The prime minister is the head of the central government, which is separated along executive, legislative and judicial branches.Read More » GDP$179 billion GDP PER CAPITA, PPP$18,...