In November 2010, armoured vehicles rumbled along the streets and heavily armed police units re-established control over the slum.
Since then, Mr. Putin has re-established control over some of the country's most vital sectors: the national television and media organizations.
By planting the Russian flag in Grozny, the Russian military will re-establish control over the scene of some of its greatest humiliations during the 1994-1996 war.
"They want to set prices, regulate incomes, impose rent controls, wage war on big business, demonise wealth creation, renationalise industries – and pretend that they can re-establish control over all aspects of the economy.
A14 British troops moved in with tanks and helicopters and apparently questioned witnesses in a effort to re-establish control over a village where six soldiers were killed a week ago.
A western official in Kabul said a spate of arrests by Pakistani security forces of senior Taliban officials suggests Pakistan's intelligence agencies are trying to "re-establish control over the process".
As NATO bombs fall on Tripoli, however, Colonel Qaddafi is discovering that he needs to convince remaining loyalists that he can re-establish control over Libya's oil riches or they, too, will turn on him.
The militants, he said, would not be able to re-establish control over the area with the army there, but they could use the hit-and-run tactics to keep it off balance.
The government of Congo has been struggling to re-establish control over the eastern part of the country since a 1998-2003 wandand its accompanying ills killed 5.4 million people.
Putin and Russia have called for an immediate ceasefire in the region, and for the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, to negotiate with the pro-Russia leaders in the east, but Kiev has branded them "terrorists" and wants to re-establish control over the areas rather than let a de facto independent statelet spring up.
To try to re-establish control over the south, the defense minister, Ismail Isakov, was sent to Osh and granted new powers as a governor general for the three southern districts, according to Edil Baisalov, the interim government's chief of staff.
