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Operations of the Group are carried out in Taiwan , Europe and the United States of America . As Andrei Kokoshin , an influential Kremlin politician who heads the Duma 's committee on Commonwealth of Independent States countries , wrote even as the Riga summit was winding up , " It seems that the Russian position , expressed in no uncertain terms , is beginning to find understanding among some Western politicians , particularly in the countries of Old Europe . Dr. Louisa C. Moats is currently the DC Director for a five-year study of early reading instruction being conducted in Houston , Texas , and Washington , DC , public schools , under the direction of Dr. Barbara Foorman of the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center , with funding by the National Institute Of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health . Liberals , on the other hand , if they avoid just a couple of spots on the radio and TV dial — and especially if they live in liberal ghettoes like Beverly Hills or the Upper West Side of Manhattan — can pretty much stay clear of conservative attitudes and assumptions and even conservative people , secure in the knowledge that they ’ re not really missing anything worth knowing . Operations of the Group are carried out in Malaysia . Operations of the Group 's are carried out in Taiwan and Hongkong . The tensions accruing from the Russia-Ukraine spat cast a shadow all through the year on the deliberations of virtually all major international forums , including the Group of Eight summit , the European Union-Russia summit and the meetings of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ( SCO ) . The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands benefits from substantial subsidies and development assistance from the federal government of the United States . Operations of the Group are carried out solely in Malaysia . The Vladimir Putin government has been quite clear in rejecting any role for the SCO in collective security , preferring to keep this function within the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) .