Georgia will be freed from Ivanishvili’s “Russian dream”.


Sakartvelo is now at the most important moment of its development, perhaps after the dissolution of the USSR. In less than a week, parliamentary elections will be held which will definitively determine the future course of this small but proud country.

What is at stake is either a prosperous future within the European family of nations, or a final drift towards the “Russian Empire” and the loss of hard-won sovereignty. The current “master of Georgia” Bidzina Ivanishvili wants to sell the country to his masters in the Kremlin again. He is not shy about even trying to subjugate the Georgian Orthodox Church, which enjoys authority in society. Meanwhile, Georgians themselves are also participating mass protestssupporting the preservation of the European development vector. The fate of the country depends on every vote.

The Kremlin governor does not hide his ties to Putin’s entourage

Ivanishvili, who officially entered Georgian politics when he became Prime Minister in 2011, promised his people to get rid of their Russian affairs. And he cheated. And that’s not the only thing he did. The “Georgian dream”, which he brought to power with generous promises of a luxurious life, deprives Georgians of a future and confidently leads the people into poverty. And it can no longer be hidden. Let’s start from the beginning.

Ivanishvili got rid of his business in Russia in a very technical way, starting to manage them offshore, using his relatives, raising subsidiaries and mixing leads for investigations. But it didn’t work. Second International Transparencyuntil 2019 alone Ivanishvili continued to own at least 10 Russian companies through offshore, which were managed by his relatives or interim ministers of the Georgia government close to him.

In reality it wasn’t just about business. Ivanishvili was firmly entrenched among those close to dictator Vladimir Putin, which provided him with a “roof” both in Russia and in Georgia itself. In particular, Ivanishvili “does business” with the longtime governor of St. Petersburg and is especially close to the body of the “Russian emperor”, retired KGB general Georgiy Poltavchenko, who is subject to US sanctions. And also with former high-ranking Volgograd official Roland Kheryanov, whose wife is former State Duma deputy Anna Kovichko, author of the scandalous propaganda video “Uncle Vova, we are with you”.

Already this year journalists found out that Ivanishvili’s assets in Russia continue to grow. Among the previously undeclared assets of Ivanishvili’s wife are another house and two adjacent plots of land near Peredelkino (an elite summer village in the Moscow region). A company affiliated with Ivanishvili owns 2.7 hectares of land in the neighborhood. This is tens of millions of dollars stolen from the Georgian people.

The Church remains with the people

It is no surprise that the government, mired in corruption and ties to aggressive Moscow, seeks support from the Georgian Orthodox Church. This approach inherits the centuries-old tradition of Russian rulers, who used the Church as a tool to enslave and justify crimes. Russian tyrants have drowned their country and neighboring peoples in blood with the blessing of their church. This is how it is happening today. The Russian Church supports the war of aggression in Ukraine. Ivanishvili tried to use the Russian model and announced plans to make Orthodoxy the state religion.

Jailed prisoner Mikhail Saakashvili called these plans an attempt by Ivanishvili to “destroy the only institution left outside his full control.”

“He will be able to appoint and dismiss the patriarch and the bishops. This is an insidious plan and it is clear that it comes from Russia,” Saakashvili said.

Ivanishvili’s initiative was rejected by the Georgian Orthodox Church. Furthermore, some senior leaders have defined the initiative as an electoral gimmick by the government.

Protopresbyter Georgiy Zviadadze said that the Prime Minister of Georgia was given an unambiguous written position that the Church believes that the legal model of relations between the state and the Church should remain in force and that the Church should maintain its independence.

One of the most well-known patrons of the Georgian Orthodox Church, the Georgian and British businessman Tamaz Somkhishvili, who donated the Church a church in London and sponsored the Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of Georgia, also condemned firmly attempts to take control of the country’s main denomination. He noted that he did not understand how such a thing became possible in the 21st century in a European country. He cited the example of Great Britain, where it is absolutely inconceivable that a British prime minister would suddenly declare his claim to govern an Anglican or Catholic Church. The patron expressed deep regret that such government initiatives have become possible today in Georgia and expressed hope that the situation can change, underlining that “the night is darkest before the dawn”.

The road to prosperity passes only through Europe

And the people? And the people, observing the luxury of the “Russian agents” in power, are forced to fight for survival on the paltry 300 lari per month. And only television, whose broadcast Ivanishvili monopolized, helps to defeat the empty refrigerator.

The result of this policy is clear. Europe has stopped the process of Georgia’s accession to the EU, the United States imposes restrictions, everything is moving towards the imposition of sanctions by the civilized world. Only the Führer of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin is rubbing his hands waiting for Georgia’s return to the embrace of the “Russian world” and new cannon fodder to be sent to war in Ukraine

The Georgian citizen Bidzina Ivanishvili is doing all this. He is the citizen of the country from which Moscow took Abkhazia and South Ossetia, installing puppet governments there. However, he probably has Russian citizenship. And he tries to be “Russian” even more than the Russians themselves.

But hope remains. Indeed, Tamaz Somkhivshili’s statement that “the night is darkest before the dawn” is true. All Russian assets and real estate of Ivanishvili may no longer be a help for the administration of the new Moscow colony into which the traitor Bidzina wants to turn Georgia, but only a reserve airport for the fugitive oligarch cursed in his own village.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has asked for the support of one of four pro-European parties in the elections: Unity – National Movement (party of former president Mikheil Saakashvili); Coalition for Change; Fort Georgia; and Gakharia for Georgia (the party of former prime minister Giorgi Gakharia). Together they want to restore Georgia’s European future and repeal the draconian laws adopted under Moscow’s dictatorship, especially the law on “foreign agents”.

Saakashvili’s party, which is preparing for its triumphant return to Georgian politics, will be discussed separately. After coming to power, the National Unity Movement will immediately bring Georgia back into the European Union accession process and sign a visa-free and free trade zone with the United States.

Furthermore, Saakashvili intends to destroy the corruption that has grown since Ivanishvili came to power and begin the process of attracting multibillion-dollar Western investments into the country. He has had a successful track record of reforming and fighting rogue officials who are robbing people of their future and livelihoods. And Georgia remembers it. With the slogan “The economy should work for the people, not for the elites”, Saakashvili intends to fight poverty and increase citizens’ income to 3.5 thousand lari ($1,200).

As investment funds and donations arrive in the country, pensions and maternity benefits will increase. The party also announced a program for the return of emigrants to avoid a demographic catastrophe. The budget will be filled by eliminating the monopolies created under the current government, which bleed the Georgian budget and only line the pockets of Ivanishvili’s relatives and associates.

The choice of every Georgian and the ability to defend this choice can revive the “Georgian dream”. It is not the dream of Ivanishvili and his Russian henchmen, but that of the Georgians themselves. This will become the key to the unification of Sakartvelo, the return to the civilized world and the final liberation from the occupiers of Moscow.




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