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Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder and honorary chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, marked the 13th anniversary of his party’s coming to power in the October 1 letter, railing against what he called “agents,” “internal enemies,” and “traitors” while warning that the upcoming October 4 local elections will be another test of the country’s sovereignty and stability.
“October 1 has become a symbol of unity, dignity, and the victory of good over evil,” Ivanishvili said at the start of the statement published on the Georgian Dream Facebook page. He described the day as “a key watershed between, on the one hand, authoritarianism, submission to foreign interests, fear and terror, and, on the other, democracy, loyalty to national sovereignty and freedom.”
Ivanishvili credited the Georgian people as “the main creator of October 1,” saying they “remain faithful to our ancestors’ teachings, traditions and Christian values, and have never bowed to domestic or foreign enemies.”
Ivanishvili said the 2012 victory was founded on “freedom, justice, mutual respect, love, dignity and independence,” and that those ideals “have not disappeared” in the 13 years since and “remain the foundation of our team’s actions.”
Since the 2012 change in government, Ivanishvili said, the ruling party has pursued economic stability and social welfare, and has produced “tangible results.” “The Georgian Dream government is the only power that has maintained lasting peace, and there is not a field that has not fundamentally improved since 2012,” he said.
But Ivanishvili warned that the country faces renewed threats from “forces of radicalism, confrontation and artificial discord” that now operate “in the name of the opposition” and, he said, aim “to take us back to the past, to immobility and to submission to foreign interests.”
He accused some opposition figures and “so-called non-governmental organizations” of acting as agents for foreign powers, saying those groups had been weakened but cautioning they could be replaced by others. “We have exposed all traitors and forced our internal enemies to admit that their actions are based not on national but on foreign interests,” he said. “Because of this, the pressure and blackmail against our country and people have increased and taken different forms.”
Ivanishvili acknowledged that his party had made mistakes during the past 13 years, but said they “were not to the degree to put our statehood and physical existence in danger, not to the degree that would be impossible to correct and eradicate.”
He added that what he called “wicked betrayal” by some former allies was the “hardest” experience for him personally. “During the past years, in our team there was betrayal too, which created a crisis not only for Georgian Dream, but also posed a real danger for the Georgian people and our country – to derail from the development trajectory and to return to power forces obedient to foreign interests,” Ivanishvili said.
Looking ahead to local elections on October 4, Ivanishvili urged Georgians to treat the vote as a chance to reaffirm the 2012 victory peacefully. “On October 4 we have a chance to show everyone again that our struggle today is about going to the polls and making a free choice, and about preserving peace and stability,” he said.
“Today we can finally peacefully confirm the peaceful victory obtained in 2012, turn radicalism and confrontation into yesterday, and then fight for more development and welfare, for finally overcoming poverty, for strengthening sovereignty and for peacefully uniting the country,” Ivanishvili said.
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Property ownership in Abkhazia
From 1 October, Abkhazia has launched a land cadastre, which experts are calling a turning point for the region’s real estate market. From now on, all property and land transactions must be registered with the Cadastre Chamber.
The absence of a unified cadastral system had long created problems for landowners, investors and property buyers, as there was no clear or comprehensive information about plots. Land itself cannot be sold in Abkhazia under the Constitution and the Land Code, which also affects how property rights are formalised.
“When property boundaries were originally informal — marked by a tree or a crooked fence — people had a rough idea of where their land ended. But today, with the growth of the economy and rising land values, even the smallest plots can spark serious disputes and conflicts.
That’s why having a clear, unambiguous and guaranteed boundary will certainly ease the problem in the future. But, inevitably, during the registration process there will be disputes, conflicts and all sorts of arguments over where one plot ends and another begins,” said lawyer Oleg Papaskiri.
The new cadastral system will be updated in stages. At present, it already contains data on more than 80,000 properties, linked to records from the Bureau of Technical Inventory, local architecture departments and the privatisation committee.
From its official launch, all new property and land transactions will be entered into the cadastre. Once the system is fully operational, a complete inventory of all real estate in the republic will follow.
Experts say the introduction of the cadastre will benefit everyone:
- the state, which will have clear records of who owns what and at what value;
- property owners, who gain stronger guarantees of ownership rights;
- buyers, whose transactions will be backed by legal certainty;
- and the real estate market itself, which is expected to become more transparent as a result.
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Property ownership in Abkhazia