Sentence examples for slavic countries from inspiring English sources

Between 1941 and 1944 the Nazis occupied Greece with a brutality exceeded only in Slavic countries.

With the endowment of monasteries by Russia and other Slavic countries, the peninsula took on an almost pan-Orthodox character.

But the relationship between Belarus and Russia, both Slavic countries with an intricately linked history, has crumbled in the last two years over economic disputes.

Entitled Selection-12, it bemoans football's transformation into a money-making exercise and calls for local players and those from Slavic countries to be given priority at Zenit.

The work stimulated other publications in France, the Netherlands, Russia, and the southern Slavic countries and has not yet been superseded.

The Philokalia had great success in the Slavic countries, especially Russia, and a Church Slavonic version appeared in 1793 in St . Petersburgunder the title of Dobrotoliubie.

Its international airport, just outside the capital city of Ljubljana, is in the midst of a 10-year expansion that will further reveal this often overlooked Slavic country to the world.

At stake is not only the prize of the presidency of a nation of nearly 48 million, but also the direction of the overwhelmingly Slavic country during the next five-year presidential term.

But many analysts have suggested Russia will stop short of invading east Ukraine and will instead seek to compromise presidential polls on May 25 in a bid to retain influence in the neighbouring Slavic country.

It's a gastronomic staple that both unites Eastern Europe — every Slavic country has its own, slightly altered recipe — and divides it: an estimated seventy thousand gallons are being served in Sochi while, in neighboring Ukraine, anti-Russian protestors rely on it to sustain their movement.

Kievan Rus, first East Slavic state.