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Month: October 2024
The ruling party, “Georgian Dream,” has published a letter from the party’s honorary chairman, oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, timed for October 1, in which he threatens a “fire rain” and “collective condemnation of the National Movement” [convicted ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili’s party].
On October 1, 2012, when “Georgian Dream” first won the parliamentary elections, Bidzina Ivanishvili, in his extensive letter, called this day the day of the return of freedom. He writes that the “Georgian Dream” government has to “walk on a knife’s edge” to maintain “continuous peace” in the country, despite constant attempts by internal and external enemies to incite revolution and destabilize the country. Ivanishvili emphasizes the need to prevent in Georgia what is happening to “our” neighbor, Ukraine, and what happened in 2008.
The honorary chairman of the ruling party again emphasizes the necessity of obtaining a constitutional majority and repeats the four known promises if this is achieved: condemnation of the “National Movement,” unification of the country, protection of the sanctity of the family, and strengthening the role of the church.
“First, the ‘National Movement’ must be recognized as unconstitutional and then condemned to the full extent of the law. This is a collective regime that terrorized, killed, and tortured its own population and started a war.
This is necessary so that Georgia is governed by a government elected by our people, and not by the collective ‘National Movement,’ consisting of agents of foreign powers.
So that together we can fulfill the long-held dream of seeing our Homeland once again united on the basis of peace, reconciliation, and mutual forgiveness.
So that we can put an end, once and for all, to the constant attempts to insult and demean the family, nationality, and faith, and to strengthen and protect the independence of the Orthodox Church. We must enshrine in the Constitution the role of the Orthodox Church as a pillar of the Georgian state’s identity.
Thus, on October 26, the issue at hand is not a matter of political sympathies or antipathies, but the question of Georgia’s existence,” Ivanishvili’s letter states.
On October 1, 2012, “Georgian Dream” won the parliamentary elections, replaced the “National Movement,” and came to power.
Bidzina Ivanishvili has returned to politics three times. He currently holds the position of honorary chairman of the party, and top government officials make important decisions only after consulting with him — Ivanishvili also selects candidates for the positions of president and prime minister.
Ivanishvili is the only Georgian businessman included in Forbes’ list of world billionaires. As of 2024, his fortune is estimated at $7.4 billion. For comparison, in 2019, his net worth was valued at $4.9 billion.
Moscow praises Tbilisi’s mayor for supporting Russia
Russian propaganda media outlets, TASS and RIA Novosti, responded to a statement by Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze, in which he praised Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks. According to the propagandists, Georgia has admitted its mistakes regarding Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Russian propaganda media circulated Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze’s statement under the following headlines:
● “Kaladze said Georgia made mistakes regarding Abkhazia and South Ossetia.”
● “Georgia admitted to making mistakes concerning South Ossetia and Abkhazia.”
TASS specifically wrote, “The Mayor of Tbilisi praised Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks on resolving relations between Georgia, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia:”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Moscow is ready to mediate between Georgia and its “neighbors”—the “states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia”—if the parties are interested.
“Our government views this positively,” Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze responded to Lavrov’s remarks.
However, Kaladze expects Russia to take concrete steps, noting that while Russia’s support for reconciliation is “of course” positive, “it would be good to follow these statements with some actions.”
Moscow praises Tbilisi’s mayor for supporting Russia
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