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After a long spell of conservative dominance, the city has swung left in the past decade under Mr. Wowereit and his junior partners, the ex-Communist Left Party.

Germany's Greens: From Hippies to Hip Patrick McGroarty 2011

Sidney Rittenberg, an American ex-Communist who lived in China from 1944 to 1979, recalls writing to Xi Jinping when he was Fujian governor to ask him to help renegotiate a contract for a power project on which major U.S. investors were losing money.

Early Hardship Shaped Xi's World View Jeremy Page 2012

From the nation's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 until his death from heart failure in 2006, Mr. Niyazov, an ex-Communist party boss known for his erratic behavior and penchant for building golden statues to himself, transformed Turkmenistan into something between a medieval fiefdom and Stalinist amusement park.

Holiday in Turkmenistan Matt Siegel 2011

Moscow already has one key asset in the country: a cadre of ex-Communist government officials trained while the Soviet Union controlled Afghanistan, who now form the backbone of Kabul's security establishment.

Russia Strives To Boost Influence In Afghanistan 2010

Moscow already has one key asset in the country: a cadre of ex-Communist government officials trained while the Soviet Union controlled Afghanistan, who now form the backbone of Kabul's security establishment.

Russia Strives To Boost Influence In Afghanistan 2010

The first of the breakaway states from the former Yugoslavia hosts the EU/US event because it happens to be holding the six-month rotating presidency of the EU, the first of the ex-Communist countries who joined in 2004 to do so.

Can Bush show Europe he is still president? 2008

Moscow already has one key asset in the country: a cadre of ex-Communist government officials trained while the Soviet Union controlled Afghanistan, who now form the backbone of Kabul's security establishment.

Russia Strives To Boost Influence In Afghanistan The Huffington Post News Team 2010

It would have made more sense to tap someone from the pool of ex-Communist or fellow-traveler screenwriters who knew the history and the movies.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

Ironically, and even perhaps tragically, in claiming the moral high ground of patriotic duty, Dmytryk and the other ex-Communist informers legitimized, as only they could, the anti-Communist crusade led by the cynical, self-serving, and conspiratorial House Un-American Activities Committee.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

Landov European leaders called for a doubling of IMF aid to ex-Communist countries, but didn't say where the funds would come from.

Crisis Spurs Call for Bigger Bailouts 2009