Separatist conflicts, mutinies, and warlords have bedeviled Georgia since the breakup of the USSR.

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The CAR has a history of coups and army mutinies, as well as endemic corruption, and remains one of Africa's least developed nations.

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Mr Brown can scarcely complain about disloyalty, for he helped to inculcate a taste for plots and mutinies during his long march to Downing Street.

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In this India - where novelist VS Naipaul famously commented that a "million mutinies" are under way - local word-of-mouth perceptions about a political party or a candidate almost always count for more than any media spin.

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