Article: Push to unify Georgia could spark civil war; Regional militia blew up bridges Sunday after Georgian president tried to impose central government control.(WORLD)

Article: China's monolithic central government is learning: ...
AP Worldstream;  March 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... central committees, central government asserting central authority ... has become central to the central government' s idea of achieving success ... Heilongjiang _ all part of the central government's notion of raising living ... professor at the University of Georgia in the United ...

Article: Angry crowd blocks Georgian elections official from entering ...
AP Worldstream;  April 14, 2004 ;     504 words ... ... Dateline: TBILISI, Georgia An angry crowd on Wednesday ... blocked the head of Georgia's central elections ... tense feud with the central government. The incident strongly ... tax revenues from the central government. The crisis subsided ...

Article: Georgia Puts Trade Limits on Province
AP Online;  March 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 2004 Dateline: TBILISI, Georgia Adzharian security forces ... the internal border between Georgia and its restive Adzharia province ... Persistent tension between the central government in Tbilisi and Adzharia heightened ... Photo/George Abdaladze) Georgia's president slapped trade ...

Article: Georgia Breakaway Province Set for Vote
AP Online;  November 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... separate Georgia from its ... from the central government in a bloody ... within Soviet Georgia, broke away from the central government following ... suspicious of the central government. "We want ... referendum. "In Georgia, (our ...

Article: Reports: Russia detains alleged spy working for Georgia
AP Worldstream;  May 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... campaign to prevent Georgia from joining the alliance ... regions that broke from central government control in early 1990s ... Abkhazia to look to Georgia, not Russia, for ... cooperation with the central government would mean that Abkhazia ... successful development of Georgia's ...

Transcript: Profile: Growing tensions between the president of ...
NPR Special;  March 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... ties to Russia, has refused to pay taxes to Georgia's central government. Kelly McEvers reports. KELLY McEVERS reporting: To understand the conflict between Georgia's central government and its stubborn western region Adjara is ...

Article: Tension high as Georgia tries to rein in restive Adzharia ...
AP Worldstream;  March 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... border with Georgia as tensions swirled over the central government's attempt ... Adzharia and the central government likely arose ... losing power in Georgia's March 28 ... to accept the central government's authority ...