Puzzled and concerned about Georgia?

Many are. There is some wonderful openDemocracy coverage and in our sister ship openDemocracy Russia, with translations. Writers who have been there and know the history. Neal Ascherson just up with a sense of what it is like. The measured, scholarly and compelling Donald Rayfield. Both explain why Abkhazia and South Ossetia have a case. Georgia's Education Minister Ghia Nodia, stirs up the comments. There is Pepsikolka 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 both in oD Russia being pulled to a new level by its editors Susan Richards and  Zygmunt Dzieciolowski