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Percentage increase, between 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census, of persons identifying themselves as of Polish ancestry: 13.8%.
The overall increase in the U.S. population between 1980 and 1990: 9.8%.
The overall increase in the U.S. Caucasian population between 1980 and 1990: 6.0%.
The highest rate of increase in persons of Polish ancestry in the U.S. between 1980 and 1990 occurred in Florida and amounted to 55.68%.
The lowest rate of increase in persons of Polish ancestry in the U.S. between 1980 and 1990 occurred in the state of New York and amounted to 0.25%.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau figures, as quoted by Donald Pienkos in the Alphonse Fiedorczyk Memorial Lecture at the Central Connecticut State University's Polish Studies Center, 25 April 1993.

Year-on-year inflation in Ukraine in 1994: 500%.

Source:Reuter (Clarinet), 31 January 1995.

Year-on-year inflation in Russia in 1994: 294%.

Source: IMF estimate, as reported by Associated Press on 18 January 1995.

Year-on-year inflation in Poland in 1994: 29.5%.

Source: Reuter (Warsaw), 18 January 1995.

Year-on-year inflation in 1994 in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia respectively: 45.1%, 25% and 47.7%.

Source: Reuter, 10 February 1995.

Percentage drop in Russian GDP in 1994 (compared to 1993): 15%.

Source: Associated Press, 18 January 1995 and 14 February 1995.

Estimated growth in Polish GDP in 1994 (compared to 1993): 5.3%-5.5%.

Source: Polish Finance Minister Grzegorz Kolodko, as quoted by Reuter (Warsaw) 19 January 1995.

Percentage drop in Belarusian GDP in 1994 (compared to 1993): 21%.

Source: Reuter, 2 February 1995.

Estimated drop in the GDP in Kazakhstan in 1994 (compared to 1993): 25.4%.

Source: Reuter, 26 January 1995.

Percentage drop in Russian oil production in 1994 (by comparison to 1993): 10%.

Source: Associated Press, 18 January 1995.

Percentage increase in Russian oil exports in 1994 (by comparison to 1993): 8%.

Source: Associated Press, 14 February 1995.

Value of Polish exports in 1994: $16.9 billion.
Value of Polish imports in 1994: $17.7 billion.

Source: Reuter (Warsaw), 18 January 1995.

Value of Russian exports in 1994: $48 billion.
Value of Russian imports in 1994: $28.2 billion.

Source: OMRI Daily Digest (Prague), 20 January 1995.

Value of Hungarian exports in 1994: $10.7 billion.
Value of Hungarian imports in 1994: $14.6 billion.
Estimated total foreign investment in Hungary and Poland since 1990, respectively: $8.5 billion and $4.3 billion.
Foreign investment in Poland in 1994: $1.3 billion.

Source: Reuter, 10 February 1995.

Hungarian budget deficit in 1995, as percentage of projected GNP: 9%.

Source: Reuter, 22 February 1995.

Percentage of Ukrainian exports in 1994 going to Russia and Poland, respectively: 39% and 1%.

Source: OMRI Daily Digest, 10 February 1995.

Percentage of drinking water in Russia deemed unsafe because of contamination with bacteria and/or radioactivity: 75%.

Source: Alexei Yablokov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of a report funded by Russia's Security Council and released 2 February 1995, as reported by the Associated Press, 2 February 1995.

Percentage of Czech parliament deputies who signed a petition (delivered to President Vaclav Havel 8 February 1995) requesting that St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague not be returned to the Catholic Church: over 50%.

Source: Steve Kettle of OMRI Daily Digest, 10 February 1995.

Decline in population in the Russian Federation in 1994: 124,000.
Russian population in 1994: 148.2 million.
Life expectancy for men in the Russian Federation in 1994: 59 years.
Life expectancy for women in the Russian Federation in 1994: 72 years.

Source: State Statistics Committee in Russia, as reported by the Associated Press on on 7 February 1995.

Minimum monthly wage in Belarus in January 1995: 30,000 Belarusian rubels, or $3.00.

Source: Reuter, 26 January 1995.

Minimum monthly wage/pension in Belarus after the February 1995 increase: $13.00.

Source: Reuter, 28 February 1995.

Average monthly wage in Georgia in January 1995: $2.00.

Source: Associated Press, 8 February 1995.

Average monthly wage in Ukraine in 1994: under $20.00.

Source: Lida Poletz, Reuter, 20 February 1995.

January 1995 inflation in Ukraine: 21.2%

Source: Reuter, 9 February 1995.

Estimated January 1995 inflation in Belarus: 33%.

Source: Reuter, 26 January 1995.

January 1995 inflation in the Russian Federation: 17.8%.

Source: Reuter, 15 February 1995.

January 1995 inflation in Poland: 3.9%.

Source: Donosy, 16 February 1995.

Russian grain harvest in 1994: 81.3 million tons.
Estimated amount of grain necessary to meet the needs of the Russian Federation's population in 1995: 108-110 million tons.

Source: Thomas Sigel, OMRI Daily Digest, 25 January 1995.

Estimated Hungarian GDP in 1994: $41 billion.

Source: Reuter, 28 February 1995.

Russian budget for 1995, after third reading in the Duma: $56.36 billion.
Estimated revenues of the Russian Federation in 1995, as stated in the budget: $39.77 billion.
Estimated Russian budget deficit for 1995, as stated in the budget: $17 billion.

Source: Thomas Sigel, OMRI Daily Digest, 28 February 1995.

Russian budget deficit for 1994: 10.4% of GDP.

Source: Andrei Ilarionov, Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis in Moscow, as quoted by Thomas Sigel, OMRI Daily Digest, 1 March 1995.

Number of gas stations in the Russian Federation (pop. 148 million) in 1994: 9,000.

Source: BCG (a consulting firm funded by U.S. government Agency for International Development), as reported by the Associated Press, 1 March 1995.

Total U.S. private investment in Russia at the end of 1994: $3.7 billion.

Source: Evgenii Yasin, economics minister in the Yeltsin government, as reported by the Associated Press, 27 February 1995.

Estimated AIDS cases in Russia in 1994: about 8,000, according to the World Health Organization; 894, according to the Russian Health Ministry.

Source: Associated Press, 1 March 1995.

Percentage of Muscovites who go to church once a week or once a month, respectively: 2% and 6%.
Percentage of Muscovites who 'care little or not at all about religion': 40%.
Percentage of Muscovites who view religion as 'rather important' or 'very important': 53%.

Source: A survey of Moscow residents released January 1995 by the Mneniye Polling Service, as reported by The Catholic World Report, Vol. 5, No. 3 (March 1995).

Amount of yearly stipend (per person) which a Roman Catholic Foundation, Aid to the Church in Need, has begun to distribute among the 60 Catholic priests and 6,000 Russian Orthodox priests in Russia: $1,000.00.

Source: Catholic World Report, Vol. 5, No. 3 (March 1995).

Cost of the 1994-95 war in Chechnya as of February 1995: $5 billion, or 2.5% of Russian GDP.

Source: Andrei Ilarionov, Izvestiya, 2 March 1995.

Percentage of Russians opposed to market economy: 75%.

Source: EU opinion poll published in Brussels 7 March 1995, as reported by Reuter, 7 March 1995.

Amount of the standby loan granted to Russia by the IMF's Michael Camdessus on 10 March 1995: $6.4 billion.

Source: Associated Press, 10 March 1995.


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