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# Puzzled and concerned about Georgia?
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/puzzled-and-concerned-about-georgia/
- Published: 2008-08-15T15:08:27.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:41:25.000Z
- Author: Anthony Barnett
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

Many are. There is some wonderful openDemocracy coverage and in our sister ship [openDemocracy Russia](https://www.opendemocracy.net/russia), with translations. Writers who have been there and know the history. [Neal Ascherson ](https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/after-the-war-recognising-reality-in-abkhazia-and-georgia)just up with a sense of what it is like. The measured, scholarly and compelling [Donald Rayfield](https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/the-georgia-russia-conflict-lost-territory-found-nation). Both explain why Abkhazia and South Ossetia have a case. Georgia's Education Minister [Ghia Nodia](https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/georgia-under-fire-the-power-of-russian-resentment), stirs up the comments. There is [Pepsikolka](https://www.opendemocracy.net/russia/article/georgia-poti-blog-part-two) blogging from Georgia's Black Sea port of Poti; and a fascinating piece on the use of the web in wartime in Russia by [Evgeny Morozov](https://www.opendemocracy.net/russia/article/russia-georgia-war-of-the-web) both in oD Russia being pulled to a new level by its editors [Susan Richards](https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Susan%5FRichards.jsp) and [Zygmunt Dzieciolowski](https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Zygmunt%5FDzieciolowski.jsp)