I asked him why the I.O.C. had chosen Sochi to host the Games, particularly when the city is in one of the most restive areas of the world.
In the most restive neighborhood of Homs, activists said they raised a flag predating the Assad family's rule.
Ahmad Faizy's network reaches into the most restive corners of Afghanistan: lawless, Taliban-dominated areas where government officials and troops, if they are present at all, have to hunker down behind thick defensive walls.
The most restive and potentially active of the leaders of these regions is Aslan Abashidze, who recently proclaimed himself president of the third secessionist area, Adzharia, which has not declared independence but has operated as an autonomous region on the Black Sea coast.
It is just north of Baquba, the regional capital of Diyala Province, one of the most restive provinces in Iraq.
For days, the government had signaled a campaign against the city, one of Syria's most restive and unpredictable, given the ties of the expanded clans that knit it together.
American commanders say they intend to bring many of the most restive areas, including Falluja, under control by the end of the year, by force if necessary.
Residents said three other occupants of the house were wounded in the strike, in the village of Kalosha in South Waziristan, one of the most restive tribal regions.
Xinjiang Province, about 2,000 miles west of Beijing, is one of China's most restive areas; the Uighur population lives in tense coexistence with the Han Chinese majority who migrated there.
In the past couple of years, at least four other settlements have renamed themselves after the platinum belt's most restive region as a mark of solidarity.
