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Message: <blockquote data-quote="පාහරයා" data-source="post: 6850854" data-attributes="member: 270988">Eastern Europe is a region lying in the Eastern part of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Europe" target="_blank">Europe</a>. The term is highly <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Low_context_culture" target="_blank">context-dependent</a> and even volatile, as there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region".<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-TheBalkans-0" target="_blank">[1]</a> A related <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/UN" target="_blank">UN</a> paper adds that "every assessment of spatial identities is essentially a social and cultural construct".<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-ReferenceA-1" target="_blank">[2]</a>One prevailing definition describes Eastern Europe as a <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/European_culture" target="_blank">cultural</a> (and econo-cultural) entity: the region lying between <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Central_Europe" target="_blank">Central Europe</a> and <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Western_Asia" target="_blank">Western Asia</a>, with main characteristics consisting in <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Byzantine" target="_blank">Byzantine</a>, <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" target="_blank">Orthodox</a> and limited <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" target="_blank">Ottoman</a> influences.<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-ReferenceA-1" target="_blank">[2]</a><a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-S._P._Ramet.2C_Eastern_Europe.2C_Politics.2C_Culture_and_Society_since_1939.2C_Indiana_University_Press_1998.2C_p._15-2" target="_blank">[3]</a> Western advocates of this view include the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/OECD" target="_blank">OECD</a>, the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/World_Bank" target="_blank">World Bank</a>,<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-3" target="_blank">[4]</a> and <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" target="_blank">US VP</a> <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Joe_Biden" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a>.<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[5]</a>Another definition, considered outdated by an increasing number of authors,<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[6]</a><a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-cotf.edu-6" target="_blank">[7]</a><a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-7" target="_blank">[8]</a><a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-8" target="_blank">[9]</a> was created during the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Cold_War" target="_blank">Cold War</a> and used more or less synonymously with the term <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" target="_blank">Eastern Bloc</a>, including the countries that historically and geographically belong to Central Europe.<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-A._M._Jaggar.2C_I._M._Young.2C_A_companion_to_feminist_philosophy.2C_2000-9" target="_blank">[10]</a> A similar definition names the formerly Communist European states outside the Soviet Union as Eastern Europe.<a href="http://www.elakiri.com/forum/#cite_note-S._P._Ramet.2C_Eastern_Europe.2C_Politics.2C_Culture_and_Society_since_1939.2C_Indiana_University_Press_1998.2C_p._15-2" target="_blank">[3]</a> These are also described as the constituents of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Central_and_Eastern_Europe" target="_blank">Central and Eastern Europe</a>.....</blockquote>

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