41.  Crimean Tatars also blocked two highways on the Black Sea peninsula, a nominally autonomous region of Ukraine that has its own parliament, the Interfax news agency reported.

42.  Dayton allowed the Bosnian Serbs to run their own autonomous region, which comprises nearly half the territory.

43.  East Timorese will vote on their future Monday in a U.N.-supervised ballot that will offer the choice of full independence or becoming an autonomous region within Indonesia.

44.  Filipinos vote on whether to expand Muslim autonomous region.

45.  First-round gubernatorial elections were held Sunday in Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk, Volgograd, Yakutia, and the autonomous regions of Chukotka, Evenk and Taimyr.

46.  Fraga is the president of the northwestern autonomous region of Galicia and a founding member of the Popular Party.

47.  He said Israel would have to remain responsible for the military security of the autonomous region.

48.  He said Jakarta already had granted a measure of autonomy to East Timor, but it would go against national policies to declare it a special autonomous region.

49.  He said the SNF plans to set up an autonomous region in the area between the Juba and Shabelle Rivers inhabited by the Digil and Mirifile clans.

50.  He is particularly critical of policies that have led to the creation of new autonomous regions along linguistic and ethnic lines.