The agreement is not a legally binding document but provides new standards by which to judge the conduct of Soviet-bloc countries.

Many of their music teachers had come from Soviet-bloc countries or were trained in them.

Soviet-bloc countries are expected, too, although it is too early to tell.

Soviet-bloc countries, however, maintain other kinds of exchange programs in Nicaragua that operate on a much larger scale.

But many officials warned that creating an elite first group among the former Soviet-bloc countries could leave the region divided and possibly unstable.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, I was in and out of the capital cities of the Soviet-bloc countries.

In addition, the Soviet-bloc countries have had difficulty coming up with hard currency to pay for computers.

In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country.

It was the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country.

In 1960 Poland became the first Soviet-bloc country to be granted such trade benefits.