The Slovak Republic is set to become the world's next Hong Kong or Ireland, i.e.

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Lithuania, the Slovak Republic and Belgium also derive more than half of their electricity from nuclear plants.

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Founded and heads Central European Media Enterprises: 6 television stations in the Slovak Republic, Romania, Ukraine and Slovenia, but lately fighting Czech government over TV contracts.

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Rondos created a bogus website for a company called Real Oportunity Ltd - an employment agency that arranged work for people coming to Scotland from the Slovak Republic and Czech Republic.

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The Czech Republic also shares its northwestern border with Germany, and is bordered by Poland on the north, by Austria on the south, and by the Slovak Republic on the east.

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This means that, even if we accept the optimistic forecast provided by the Ukrainian government itself, the country would still be importing about 1, 850 billion cubic feet a year, more than the combined 2008 natural gas imports of Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary (which are cumulatively about 1, 600 billion cubic feet of natural gas for a population of about 93.5 million).

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