{"id":120,"date":"2024-10-21T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2024-10-24T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:20:44","slug":"nich-najtemnisha-pered-svitankom-hruziia-zvilnytsia-vid-rosijskoi-mrii-ivanishvili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/nich-najtemnisha-pered-svitankom-hruziia-zvilnytsia-vid-rosijskoi-mrii-ivanishvili\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NIGHT IS DARKEST BEFORE DAWN: GEORGIA WILL BE FREED FROM IVANISHVILI\u2019S \u201cRUSSIAN DREAM\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sakartvelo is now at the most important juncture of its development, perhaps since the dissolution of the USSR. In less than a week, the country will hold parliamentary elections that will definitively determine the future course of this small but proud country.\nAt stake is either a prosperous future within the family of European nations, or a final drift towards the \u201cRussian Empire\u201d and the loss of hard-won sovereignty. The actual \u201cmaster of Georgia\u201d Bidzina Ivanishvili wants to sell the country again to his masters from the Kremlin. It is not shy to even try to subjugate the Georgian Orthodox Church, which enjoys authority in society. Meanwhile, Georgians themselves are taking part in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosvoboda.org\/a\/news-gruzija-akcija-za-evrosojuz\/33165640.html\">mass protests,<\/a>advocating for preservation of the European vector of development. The fate of the country depends on every vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Kremlin governor does not hide ties with Putin\u2019s entourage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivanishvili, who officially entered Georgian politics when he became Prime Minister in 2011, promised his people to get rid of his Russian business. And he cheated. And that is not the only thing he did. The \u201cGeorgian Dream\u201d, 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 is no longer possible to hide it. Let us start from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivanishvili got rid of his business in Russia very technically, just starting to run it offshore, using his relatives, breeding subsidiaries, and mixing leads for investigations. But it did not work out. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.ge\/en\/post\/russian-businesses-bidzina-ivanishvili-and-his-relatives\">Transparency International<\/a>, only until 2019 Ivanishvili continued to own at least 10 Russian companies through offshore, which were managed by his relatives or close to him acting ministers of the Government of Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, it was not just business. Ivanishvili was firmly rooted among those close to the dictator Vladimir Putin, this providing him with a \u201croof\u201d both in Russia and in Georgia itself. In particular, Ivanishvili \u201cdoes business\u201d with the long-time governor of St. Petersburg and particularly close to the body of the \u201cRussian Emperor,\u201d retired KGB General Georgiy Poltavchenko, who is under US sanctions. And also, with the former high-ranking official of Volgograd Roland Kheryanov, whose wife is a former deputy of the State Duma Anna Kovichko, author of the scandalous propaganda video \u201cUncle Vova, we are with you\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already this year, journalists have found that Ivanishvili\u2019s assets in Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/ru\/scoop\/u-semi-gruzinskogo-oligarxa-bidziny-ivanisvili-est-nezadeklarirovannaia-nedvizimost-v-rossii\">continue to grow.<\/a>Among the previously unreported assets of Ivanishvili\u2019s 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 neighbourhood. These are tens of millions of dollars stolen from the Georgian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Church remains with the people<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not surprising that the government, mired in corruption and ties with aggressive Moscow, is seeking 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 drowned their own country and neighboring peoples in blood with the blessing of their church. This is how it is happening today. The Russian Church supports the aggressive war in Ukraine. Ivanishvili tried to use the Russian template and announced plans to make Orthodoxy the state religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imprisoned Mikhail Saakashvili called these plans an attempt by Ivanishvili to \u201cdestroy the only institution that remained outside his full control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe 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,\u201d Saakashvili said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivanishvili\u2019s initiative was rejected by the Georgian Orthodox Church. Moreover, some high-ranking hierarchs have called the initiative an electoral stunt of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protopresbyter Georgiy Zviadadze stated 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 the Church should maintain its independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most well-known patrons of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Georgian and British businessman <a href=\"https:\/\/bmmagazine.co.uk\/business\/tamaz-somkhishvili-one-mans-path-to-success\/\">Tamaz Somkhishvili,<\/a>who donated a church in London to the Church and sponsored Andrew the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchate of Georgia, also strongly condemned attempts to take control of the country\u2019s 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 Britain, where it is absolutely inconceivable for a British Prime Minister to suddenly declare his claim to govern an Anglican or Catholic Church. The patron expressed deep regret that such steps of the government became possible today in Georgia and expressed hope that the situation <a href=\"https:\/\/bmmagazine.co.uk\/business\/georgia-between-russian-past-and-european-future\/\">change,<\/a>noting that \u201cthe night is darkest before dawn\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The path to prosperity lies only through Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about the people? And the people, observing the luxury of \u201cRussian agents\u201d in power, are forced to fight for survival on a measly 300 lari per month. And only TV, the broadcasting of which Ivanishvili has monopolized, is helping to defeat the empty refrigerator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result of this policy is clear. Europe has stopped the process of Georgia\u2019s accession to the EU, the US is imposing restrictions, everything is moving towards the imposition of sactions by the civilized world. Only the Kremlin F\u00fchrer Vladimir Putin rubs his hands in anticipation of Georgia\u2019s return to the embrace of the \u201cRussian world\u201d and new cannon meat that can be sent to war in Ukraine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgian citizen Bidzina Ivanishvili is doing all this. He is the citizen of the country, from which Moscow took Abkhazia and South Ossetia, putting puppet governments there. He probably has Russian citizenship, though. And he tries to be \u201cRussian\u201d even more than the Russians themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But hope remains. Indeed, Tamaz Somkhivshili\u2019s assertion that \u201cthe night is darkest before dawn\u201d is true. All Russian assets and real estate of Ivanishvili may no longer be a help for the administration of the new Moscow colony that the traitor Bidzina wants to turn Georgia into, but only a backup airfield for the fugitive oligarch cursed in his own country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili called for support of one of the four pro-European parties in the elections: Unity \u2013 National Movement (ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili\u2019s party); Coalition for Change; Strong Georgia; and Gakharia for Georgia (ex-prime minister Giorgi Gakharia\u2019s party). Together, they want to restore Georgia\u2019s European future and repeal the draconian laws adopted under Moscow\u2019s dictatorship \u2013 the law on \u2018foreign agents\u2019, in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saakashvili\u2019s party, which is preparing for its triumphant return to Georgian politics, will be discussed separately. After coming to power, Unity \u2013 National Movement is going to immediately return Georgia to the process of joining the European Union and sign a visa-free and free trade zone with the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Saakashvili intends to destroy the corruption that has grown since Ivanishvili came to power and launch the process of attracting multibillion-dollar Western investments to the country. He has had a successful experience of reforming and fighting rogue officials who are robbing the people of their future and livelihoods. And Georgia remembers that. With the slogan \u201cEconomy should work for people, not elites\u201d, Saakashvili intends to fight poverty and increase citizens\u2019 income to 3.5 thousand lari ($1200).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With investment and donor funds coming into the country, pensions and childbirth benefits will increase. The party also announced a program of returning emigrants to avoid a demographic catastrophe. The budget will be filled by eliminating the monopolies that have been bred under the current government, which drain the blood of the Georgian budget and fill only the pockets of Ivanishvili\u2019s relatives and associates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The choice of every Georgian and the ability to defend this choice may revive the \u201cGeorgian dream\u201d. It is not the dream of Ivanishvili and his Russian henchmen, but that of the Georgians themselves. This will become the key to unification of Sakartvelo, the return to the civilized world and the final liberation from the Moscow occupiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakartvelo is now at the most important juncture of its development, perhaps since the dissolution of the USSR. In less than a week, the country will hold parliamentary elections that will definitively determine the future course of this small but proud country.\nAt stake is either a prosperous future within the family of European nations...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safebritinvestua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}