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Day: October 18, 2023
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Government House in Abkhazia
At a meeting with Abkhazian students studying in Moscow Abkhazian President Aslan Bzhania said that there is an investor ready to invest in reconstruction of the building of the former Government House in Sukhum, which burned down at the end of the Georgian-Abkhazian war 1992-93 . According to Bzhania, it is likely to be turned into a hotel. But since for Abkhazians this building is one of the symbols of victory in the war, the opposition considered this idea sacrilegious.
“The building [Government House], as well as this place as a whole, is drenched in the blood of Abkhazians. And that is why not a commercial project that brings dividends to a well-known circle of businessmen from politics, but a project related to military chronicles, history, culture, science, education, sports, youth policy should be implemented here,” the opposition party Forum of People’s Unity, whose informal leader is former Abkhazian President Raul Khajimba, said in a special statement.
And famous Abkhazian singer Jimi Shumenia threatened on his social network page that he would burn down the hotel if it was built.
No one disputes symbolism of the place, but there are plenty of supporters of the hypothetical hotel. Better a hotel than a waste place, which the burned building has turned into in 30 post-war years – they say.
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Some bloggers are trying to reduce the heat of passion, claiming that the idea of building a hotel has no real grounds at all and that it is just an information throw-in, with the help of which the authorities want to divert attention from other, more real and urgent problems.
The current opposition leader Adgur Ardzinba also believes that the transfer of the Government House building into private ownership is out of the question. According to him, the project of reconstruction of the building was prepared back in 2016 and no hotel was implied by this project:
“The Abkhazian people will definitely restore this symbol of Victory in the best possible form. And in front of it we will erect a beautiful monument to Vladislav (Ardzinba, the first president of Abkhazia – JAMnews).
This will be one of the most beautiful projects in Abkhazia, and this building will serve exclusively public, people’s interests. And, of course, any private property, hotels, apartments on this place is out of the question!”
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