Question
The quiet movement of border fences is a feature of the “creeping border” between these two countries, which has seen villages split in half overnight. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these two countries which 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 answers of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in place of Russia]
[10e] Russia’s expanding “borderization” has seen dozens of innocent Georgians arrested and placed in these facilities. In the US, ICE and the CBP operate hundreds of these centers, whose residents struggle to obtain legal representation.
ANSWER: detention center [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 and BTC or Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline]
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell MATLAB | Cornell R | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |