Between 2005 and 2009, I made Pig Business by tracking US pork giant Smithfield Foods, Inc. as it swept into Poland and took advantage of cheap labor, poorly enforced environmental laws, and a government fragile in its post-communist years. ❋ Tracy Worcester (2011)
His most famous idea, of course, is the post-Cold War notion of the end of history, in a post-communist world that, he argued, had attained a kind of political apotheosis, a final stage, an ultimate synthesis, in liberal democracy. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2012)
For example, gay rights and needle exchange programs are controversial in the post-communist region, not to mention in more traditional societies around the world. ❋ Jonas Rolett (2011)
In the press coverage I have read, the sharp fall in birth rates in Eastern Europe is being blamed on the decline in the post-communist economy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Aircraft designer Mikhail Simonov, 81, whose supremely maneuverable, heavily armed and far-flying Sukhoi fighter jet became an staple of the Soviet military and a cash cow for post-communist Russia, died March 4 in Moscow. ❋ Unknown (2011)
From 1990 to 1995, he served as Poland's first popularly elected president in the post-communist era. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The population is around 15,000, and compared with the gap-toothed high streets of so many comparable British towns, its centre seems relatively vibrant, an embodiment of that brazen post-communist capitalism whereby every available surface is plastered with an advert, and the more blatant the sales pitch, the better. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He planned instead to campaign against "undemocratic laws" and create a reform movement similar to those that sprung up in the post-communist era of the early 1990s. ❋ Luke Harding In Moscow (2010)
While life is hard in post-communist (though not universally terrible) Europe, it is just as hard, if not harder in other parts of the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Our clear mandate has been to end the uncertainties that have prevailed in Hungary since 1989—in effect, to draw a line under the post-communist period and bring Hungary within the orbit of the new Europe as a fully democratic and law-governed partner in the emerging forms of cooperation. ❋ Zoltan Kovacs (2012)
Among post-communist countries, those that reformed most rapidly did generally experience a quicker turnaround and smaller drop in official output. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)
In 1990, as the Albanian revolution against 45 years of communist rule was gaining momentum, a young professor of art named Edi Rama warned that the post-communist government should be free of former communist party members. ❋ Fron Nahzi (2011)
From the beginning of the post-communist era, Poland has been a model of the strength and difficulties of a rapid transition to capitalism in a time when democratic institutions are just forming. ❋ Benjamin R. Barber (2011)
The post-communist government of Romania has offered citizenship to the Romanians of Moldova, a province seized from Romania by Stalin in World War II and now an independent republic. ❋ Zoltan Kovacs (2012)
[Russia] [after the] [Soviet Union] became a post-communist kleptocracy. ❋ Ahod (2009)
