Sakartvelo is now at a very powerful juncture of its growth, maybe because the dissolution of the USSR. In lower than per week, the nation will maintain parliamentary elections that can definitively decide the long run course of this small however proud nation.
At stake is both a affluent future inside the household of European nations, or a closing drift in direction of the “Russian Empire” and the lack of hard-won sovereignty. The precise “master of Georgia” Bidzina Ivanishvili desires to promote the nation once more to his masters from the Kremlin. It’s not shy to even attempt to subjugate the Georgian Orthodox Church, which enjoys authority in society. In the meantime, Georgians themselves are participating in mass protests, advocating for preservation of the European vector of growth. The destiny of the nation will depend on each vote.
The Kremlin governor doesn’t disguise ties with Putin’s entourage
Ivanishvili, who formally entered Georgian politics when he grew to become Prime Minister in 2011, promised his individuals to eliminate his Russian enterprise. And he cheated. And that’s not the one factor he did. The “Georgian Dream”, which he dropped at energy with beneficiant guarantees of an opulent life, deprives Georgians of a future and confidently leads the individuals into poverty. And it’s now not doable to cover it. Allow us to begin from the start.
Ivanishvili removed his enterprise in Russia very technically, simply beginning to run it offshore, utilizing his kinfolk, breeding subsidiaries, and mixing leads for investigations. However it didn’t work out. In response to Transparency Worldwide, solely till 2019 Ivanishvili continued to personal at the least 10 Russian corporations by means of offshore, which have been managed by his kinfolk or near him performing ministers of the Authorities of Georgia.
The truth is, it was not simply enterprise. Ivanishvili was firmly rooted amongst these near the dictator Vladimir Putin, this offering him with a “roof” each in Russia and in Georgia itself. Particularly, Ivanishvili “does business” with the long-time governor of St. Petersburg and significantly near the physique of the “Russian Emperor,” retired KGB Basic Georgiy Poltavchenko, who’s below US sanctions. And in addition, with the previous high-ranking official of Volgograd Roland Kheryanov, whose spouse is a former deputy of the State Duma Anna Kovichko, creator of the scandalous propaganda video “Uncle Vova, we are with you”.
Already this yr, journalists have discovered that Ivanishvili’s property in Russia proceed to develop. Among the many beforehand unreported property of Ivanishvili’s spouse are one other home and two adjoining plots of land close to Peredelkino (an elite summer season village within the Moscow area). An organization affiliated with Ivanishvili owns 2.7 hectares of land within the neighbourhood. These are tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} stolen from the Georgian individuals.
The Church stays with the individuals
It’s not shocking that the federal government, mired in corruption and ties with aggressive Moscow, is in search of assist from the Georgian Orthodox Church. This method inherits the centuries-old custom of Russian rulers, who used the church as a device to enslave and justify crimes. Russian tyrants drowned their very own nation and neighboring peoples in blood with the blessing of their church. That is how it’s occurring immediately. The Russian Church helps the aggressive battle in Ukraine. Ivanishvili tried to make use of the Russian template and introduced plans to make Orthodoxy the state faith.
Imprisoned Mikhail Saakashvili referred to as these plans an try by Ivanishvili to “destroy the only institution that remained outside his full control.”
“He will be able to appoint and dismiss the patriarch and bishops. This is an insidious plan, and it is clear that it comes from Russia,” Saakashvili mentioned.
Ivanishvili’s initiative was rejected by the Georgian Orthodox Church. Furthermore, some high-ranking hierarchs have referred to as the initiative an electoral stunt of the federal government.
Protopresbyter Georgiy Zviadadze acknowledged that the Prime Minister of Georgia was given an unambiguous written place that the Church believes that the authorized mannequin of relations between the state and the Church ought to stay in power and the Church ought to preserve its independence.
Some of the well-known patrons of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Georgian and British businessman Tamaz Somkhishvili, who donated a church in London to the Church and sponsored Andrew the First-Known as Georgian College of the Patriarchate of Georgia, additionally strongly condemned makes an attempt to take management of the nation’s fundamental denomination. He famous that he didn’t perceive how such a factor grew to become doable within the twenty first century in a European nation. He cited the instance of Britain, the place it’s completely inconceivable for a British Prime Minister to immediately declare his declare to manipulate an Anglican or Catholic Church. The patron expressed deep remorse that such steps of the federal government grew to become doable immediately in Georgia and expressed hope that the scenario will change, noting that “the night is darkest before dawn”.
The trail to prosperity lies solely by means of Europe
What concerning the individuals? And the individuals, observing the posh of “Russian agents” in energy, are compelled to struggle for survival on a measly 300 lari monthly. And solely TV, the broadcasting of which Ivanishvili has monopolized, is serving to to defeat the empty fridge.
The consequence of this coverage is clear. Europe has stopped the course of of Georgia’s accession to the EU, the US is imposing restrictions, every little thing is transferring in direction of the imposition of sactions by the civilized world. Solely the Kremlin Führer Vladimir Putin rubs his palms in anticipation of Georgia’s return to the embrace of the “Russian world” and new cannon meat that can be despatched to battle in Ukraine
Georgian citizen Bidzina Ivanishvili is doing all this. He’s the citizen of the nation, from which Moscow took Abkhazia and South Ossetia, placing puppet governments there. He in all probability has Russian citizenship, although. And he tries to be “Russian” much more than the Russians themselves.
However hope stays. Certainly, Tamaz Somkhivshili’s assertion that “the night is darkest before dawn” is true. All Russian property and actual property of Ivanishvili could now not be a assist for the administration of the brand new Moscow colony that the traitor Bidzina desires to show Georgia into, however solely a backup airfield for the fugitive oligarch cursed in his personal nation.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili referred to as for assist of one of many 4 pro-European events within the elections: Unity – Nationwide Motion (ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili’s social gathering); Coalition for Change; Robust Georgia; and Gakharia for Georgia (ex-prime minister Giorgi Gakharia’s social gathering). Collectively, they wish to restore Georgia’s European future and repeal the draconian legal guidelines adopted below Moscow’s dictatorship – the regulation on ‘foreign agents’, particularly.
Saakashvili’s social gathering, which is getting ready for its triumphant return to Georgian politics, shall be mentioned individually. After coming to energy, Unity – Nationwide Motion goes to right away return Georgia to the method of becoming a member of the European Union and signal a visa-free and free commerce zone with the US.
As well as, Saakashvili intends to destroy the corruption that has grown since Ivanishvili got here to energy and launch the method of attracting multibillion-dollar Western investments to the nation. He has had a profitable expertise of reforming and preventing rogue officers who’re robbing the individuals of their future and livelihoods. And Georgia remembers that. With the slogan “Economy should work for people, not elites”, Saakashvili intends to struggle poverty and enhance residents’ revenue to three.5 thousand lari ($1200).
With funding and donor funds coming into the nation, pensions and childbirth advantages will enhance. The social gathering additionally introduced a program of returning emigrants to keep away from a demographic disaster. The funds shall be stuffed by eliminating the monopolies which have been bred below the present authorities, which drain the blood of the Georgian funds and fill solely the pockets of Ivanishvili’s kinfolk and associates.
The selection of each Georgian and the flexibility to defend this alternative could revive the “Georgian dream”. It’s not the dream of Ivanishvili and his Russian henchmen, however that of the Georgians themselves. This can turn out to be the important thing to unification of Sakartvelo, the return to the civilized world and the ultimate liberation from the Moscow occupiers.
