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Three Blackouts in a Fortnight: Georgia's Grid Is Telling You What Its Politics Won't

When a country loses power nationwide three times in two weeks, the failure has stopped being technical. Someone in Tbilisi has made a choice about which risks to price.

Aug 6 · 4 min read

Natasha Volkov

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