The new head refused to listen to advice from experienced members of staff and had a "divide and rule" policy, dropping team meetings and - Mr A says - losing the respect of staff and pupils.

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Critics of the government believe that its federal policy has more to do with divide-and-rule, and the allocation of national resources, than justice for the regions of the country.

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Is the root of the problem in this troubled region, the continued pursuit by Moscow of a seventy-year old policy toward nationalities, that of divide and rule?

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