But there is little evidence that the mounting economic pressures since the March annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula will soften Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies toward Ukraine and other nations in the former Soviet orbit.
Belarus is the last country in the former Soviet orbit outside Russia with a large stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which can be used to make nuclear bombs if enriched to a pure enough grade.
A small fraction of former JCOs reached orbits with aphelia inside Jupiter's orbit and some reached Apollo orbits with semi-major axes less than 2 AU, Aten orbits and inner-Earth orbits (with aphelia less than 0.983 AU) and remained there for millions of years.
"The undercurrent of 'What about me?' permeates from the top down in the vice president's orbit," one former administration official said.
Casey Harwood, together with a former member of New Orbit's staff, Denise Lambert, now run UsaAdvantage.com, a site that sells US property.
– Michael D. Shear It's no secret that Rick Perry and his people don't get along so well with those in the orbit of former President (and Perry predecessor) George W. Bush.
RS Oph--as astronomers call it--is a binary system, comprising a white dwarf (the super-dense core of a former star) in close orbit with a much, much larger red giant.
David Castagnetti, a Democrat, comes from the orbit of former Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass)., now the secretary of state.
As Blacky had basically spent his adult life in two rather similar environments – Germany's criminal underworld and in jail – it was hardly surprising that his guests came from this same orbit: lawyers, former business partners and jailbirds.
In 2011 and 2012, astronomers at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., using the Hubble Space Telescope, spotted two undiscovered bodies orbiting the former planet and designated them P4 and P5 — the fourth and fifth known moons of Pluto.
