For years their history-rich cities and seaside spas have been supported by tourists from Eastern-bloc countries.
A record 160 nations have accepted, including both Western and Eastern-bloc countries for the first time since 1976.
He made seven movies in two years and, accompanied by security men, began presenting them at film festivals in Eastern-bloc countries and elsewhere.
As with diplomatic staffs in other Eastern-bloc countries that have turned from Communism, the landscape of possibility has changed drastically for these officials.
Yet while a smaller percentage of European students used illicit drugs, that percentage rose from 1995 to 1999, particularly in former Eastern-bloc countries.
For decades Yugoslavia has been a transit point for people fleeing the former Eastern-bloc countries.
Eleven athletes tested positive at the 1984 Games, which had fewer athletes because of the boycott by Eastern-bloc countries.
One of the ways he did this was by taking an unambiguous moral stand against Communism, which gave powerful encouragement to the opposition in Eastern-bloc countries.
The Eastern-bloc countries control three votes, and they will protect Katarina.
Now, like other Eastern-bloc countries, it must deal with the grim fact that the Soviet Union cannot even take care of itself.