Duma seeks to cut Georgia energy supply

[Chris Doss]

BTW, this is a good illustration of just how dependent most of the other 
former USSR republics are on Russia. Russia can practically annihilate 
Georgia simply by withholding aid. When Georgia tried to make it more 
difficult to get Russian visas, they had mass protestsin the streets. 
Independence has not worked out well for that country. 10% of Georgia's GDP 
comes from sales of Boizumi mineral water, almost entirely in Russia, and 
some 30% of the population has emigrated to its northern neighbor, legally 
and not.

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