In the mid-2000s, Gazprom drastically hiked prices for its former Soviet customers, bringing them to the European level, and the Russian Parliament passed a restrictive citizenship law ending privileges for former Soviet passport holders.At a stroke, the former Soviet Union ceased to exist: "near abroad" became simply "abroad".
Manila's infrastructure is shoddy, and private gated communities exist near public slums.
Large deposits exist near Beregovo, Ukraine; Almería, Spain; and Bullah Delah in New South Wales, Australia.
He mustered 33 wickets at 21.39 and muttered expletives at anyone who dared, well, exist near him this season.
There are huge stone walls that exist near Beijing, but those sections are not very long, relatively speaking.
That suggests pockets of liquid water exist near the surface, and makes Enceladus a new target in the search for life in the solar system.
The Kansan Glacial Stage was named for deposits studied in northeastern Kansas, although more representative and complete deposits exist near Afton, Iowa.
Conifer plantations and limestone quarries exist near Pickering, light industries operate in some towns, and tourism is important to the economy.
It was long considered doubtful whether truly stable orbits could exist near those Lagrangian points because of gravitational perturbations by the major planets.
Alien species of vascular plants near whaling stations have been introduced, and doubtless many alien microorganisms exist near all Antarctic stations.
