August 13, 2008

American Scholars Flee as Strife Disrupts Georgia

By Karin Fischer

Andrea U. De Giorgi and three students from Case Western Reserve University were to spend the month of August in the nation of Georgia, analyzing and mapping archaeological sites outside of the capital, Tbilisi.

Instead, the group, along with a colleague, Stephen Batiuk, of the University of Toronto, were forced to leave the country in the face of a sudden and escalating conflict between Georgia and neighboring Russia. They passed through one city, Gori, so soon after it had

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