Check out La Russophobe's latest piece on Publius Pundit, where she explores the relative levels of democratic development in Russia and Georgia as documented by the leading authority in this area, Freedom House. Comments are welcome on this important topic; Russians regularly claim that they cannot be criticized for taking action to unseat the Georgian government because that regime is "not democratic," but in fact Georgia's scores for democracy as judged by an impartial body of scholars are far higher than those of Russia.