Question
Two answers required. The quiet movement of border fences is a feature of the “creeping border” between these two countries, which has split villages in half overnight. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these two countries that fought over the Kodori Valley during a 2008 war. In October 2023, one of these countries announced the construction of a naval base within a separatist region propped up by the other.
ANSWER: Russia AND Georgia [accept Russian Federation or Rossiya or Rossiyskaya Federatsiya in place of “Russia”; accept South Ossetia or Abkhazia in place of “Russia”; accept Sakartvelo in place of “Georgia”]
[10e] Dozens of innocent Georgians have been arrested and placed in these facilities as part of Russia’s expanding “borderization.” In the US, CBP and ICE operate hundreds of these centers, whose residents struggle to obtain legal representation.
ANSWER: detention centers [or detention facilities]
[10h] In a particularly egregious instance of borderization in 2015, Russia claimed a portion of one of these structures that extends to Supsa. Another structure of this type is partially named for Tbilisi and Ceyhan.
ANSWER: oil pipelines [accept Baku-Supsa pipeline; accept Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline or BTC pipeline]
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| North Carolina B | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |