east

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Now, across large swathes of the more rural east, further population falls are expected as the east's post-reunification "brain drain" combines with a national trend: low birth rates.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026

Many businesses in the communist east struggled or simply collapsed as they were thrust into a profit-driven, highly competitive, global economy.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026

But it would also become a time of an enormous sense of loss for people in the east who found their socialist society absorbed, almost overnight, into the capitalist west.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026

Europe's deadly heatwave pushed east Sunday with hundreds of millions still sweltering across the continent despite fleeting relief from overnight storms, notably in France and Belgium.

From Barron's • Jun. 28, 2026

With the educations Tansy made me and Lloyd get, we went out into the world – back east to the great boom of the big city, the topless towers of Indianapolis.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck