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INCOME TAXES
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
INCOME TAXES [Abstract]  
INCOME TAXES

7.INCOME TAXES
The Company’s worldwide effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 was 19.6% and 19.1%, respectively. The increase in the Company’s worldwide effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2014, as compared with the corresponding period of 2013, was primarily due to (a) a larger portion of the Company’s pre-tax profits attributable to tax jurisdictions with relatively higher effective tax rates (as compared to effective tax rates within the Commonwealth of Independent States (“CIS”) region); and (b) a relative shift in offshore services performed in Belarus, where the Company is currently entitled to a 100% exemption from Belarusian income tax, to other countries in the CIS region (specifically Ukraine, and, to a lesser extent, Russia), both of which have higher income tax rates than Belarus.