The Russian president received a residence outside the Russian Federation – "Khrushchev’s dacha" near Pitsunda.
On the night of December 27, the so-called “parliament” of Abkhazia, the Russian-occupied Georgian region, ratified the transfer agreement at an extraordinary meeting ownership of the Russian state dacha, built in Soviet times near Pitsunda.
This is reported by the Georgian agency Interpressnews.
The intention of local collaborators to make such a gift to Putin caused resistance from the opposition, which on Tuesday, December 26, organized a protest rally outside the walls of the so-called parliament. To prevent protesters from disrupting the voting, it was held at night.
There are only 35 deputies in the “parliament” of occupied Abkhazia, 25 of the 28 present at the meeting supported this decision. Only television journalists from the occupied region were allowed to attend the meeting.
Opponents of the transfer of the dacha in Pitsunda to Russia called this decision “shameful,” but the so-called President of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania has already signed a law ratifying the agreement between the governments of Abkhazia and Russia.
The state dacha in Pitsunda was built in the 1950s and 60s by the decision of the communist leader of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev and occupies an area of about 180 hectares. The agreement, supported by the occupation authorities of Abkhazia, provides for free use of the property complex by the Russian authorities.
Previously, Putin stated that the facility should operate as a full-fledged residence of the President of the Russian Federation.
Russian Ambassador to Abkhazia Mikhail Shurgalin clarified that only buildings whose repair and maintenance will be carried out by the FSO will be transferred into ownership, and the territory will be leased for 49 years.
Recall that last year the self-proclaimed president of the “republic” of Abkhazia announced that he wanted to join Putin’s Union State.
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