Ismail Khan, the ruler of Herat, has expressed concern over the fiery suicides in his fief.
And at least half-a-dozen places, including the senior Lebed's fief of Krasnoyarsk, are imposing price controls.
Each of these princes has his own fief with an extensive network of power and patronage.
The outspoken Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, has lost half his fief to his chief rival, Talal Arslan.
The Rwandans accused the Ugandan commander, Brigadier James Kazini, of running the city as his personal fief.
But apart from that, Sheffield has been an unshakeably Labour fief since 1931.
It follows recent media reports suggesting Michael Beaumont might be open to the sale of the Fief of Sark in the future.
It will also surely be harder for the Murdochs, only a minority shareholder in News Corp, to run the company as a family fief.
Sark's system of government dates back to 1565 when Queen Elizabeth I granted "letters patent" to the first seigneur to hold the island as a "royal fief".
Galmudug is another, smaller zone that has become a cohesive semi-independent fief, south of Puntland and north of the zone which the ASWJ more or less controls.
He also said it was likely the man who brought the case against the States, Seigneur of la Fief de la Fosse Richard Falle, will be one of them.
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But that action should pave the way for the debt-equity swaps with the bankers that will make Daewoo's subsidiaries healthy enough to sell, so breaking up Mr Kim's fief.
The tiny Channel Island of Sark has a unique constitutional position: part of Britain, but not the UK, it is still held as a fief on behalf of the Queen.
The boards of such firms should ask themselves whether their bosses are stars like Mr Goizueta, or tyrants like Armand Hammer, who ruled Occidental Petroleum as his fief into his 90s.
As it turned out, General Alexander Lebed was looking thoroughly out of place in President Vladimir Putin's Russia when he died this week in a helicopter crash in his Siberian fief of Krasnoyarsk.
But though the typical overseas Chinese conglomerate, ruled by a lone patriarch, might do well in businesses, such as property or shipping, where good contacts and rapid decision-making are crucial, these fief-firms have their limitations.
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It dates back to 1565 when Queen Elizabeth I granted a fief for the island, on condition that it was kept free of pirates and occupied by at least 40 men who could carry arms.
Some problems are largely beyond Mr Shevardnadze's control, such as the private fief of Ajaria in the south, the two regions on the northern border which have struggled, with Russian help, to secede, and the Chechen rebels who use northern Georgia as a haven of last resort.
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