eastern

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The 43.7 billion euros will go to the most populated country on NATO's eastern flank, that has become the alliance's largest spender in relative terms, allocating 4.8 percent of its GDP to defence.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

The work of Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova, the deer was first installed in Pokrovsk in the eastern Donbas when the front line with Russian forces was almost 40 kilometres away.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

According to London Zoo, Asiatic lion populations once ranged in areas including Turkey, across Asia to eastern India but were hunted to near extinction.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Exxon, the biggest U.S. oil company, has a larger presence in the Persian Gulf, but Chevron, the nation’s second-biggest oil company, also has exposure to the conflict, mainly through natural-gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean.

From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026

But after a tour they took together of prisons in Siberia—the vast region of central and eastern Russia stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean—Goldfarb had a better understanding of Farmer and MDR.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French