Of course, in the last ten years more people started living better.   Many vehicles appeared  along the roads but we stand breathtaking prices at the market, though with a scratch.Young ladies dress foppishly in fashionable garb, and even  in winter restaurants are not  empty  at all,  new hotels are  under construction and  night illumination of the  quay    made with taste.

          Today yet even the capital yawns with  ruins, I do not say about other towns and regions, and after all since  the war  had ended 18 years  passed -   a whole age! For comparison: in Upland Karabakh after the war everything has been built up within three years, and marble paths laid to some schools. The point is not only in the aid  of Armenian Diaspora. They didn't have an institution "is occupied". It does not exist anywhere in the world, this is  our disgraceful know-how.

 

          Nowhere in the world   you will find fighters who consider that having won  victory they have got  a right to grasp sites and houses in their  own country.

On  a state level we speak a lot about  the engagement of foreign investments, but very often investors face   this "is occupied", and their projects fly down the pan. Not later than one of these days I have been told a story: a Russian investor wanted to build up a restaurant in the Sukhum Mountain and to put the park close to it in order. Someone came to him  and  demanded a compensation of   3 million dollars. Naturally   he left   saying  swear words.

          The appetites of homebred "owners" are not so striking as the weakness of the government -  half of the countries lies in ruins, but the state is not able to win  it from  its own  citizens..

          What surprises else that these people don't realize what a loss they cause   for the country with similar requirements of compensation. It turns out, that they were fighting for the country eternally lay in ruins? 

 

          Among the fighters there are many decent people who fought for the Motherland but not for   their  own pockets. It would be remarkable, if they protested  against such practice and in this way  gave  carte blanche to the state in putting in order in the country.

 

          Despite all of flaws, Abkhazia becomes more and more attractive not only for near abroad but  the  citizens of faraway countries too. A Swiss writer wants to come for a year to write a fantastic novel in which the act occurs in Abkhazia. A Spanish journalist plans to spend here a year to work at her travel records because Abkhazia reminds her the south of Europe of 30 years before.

          Indeed those who demand  a compensation, do not want  Abkhazia to become  fascinating, successful  and  attractive  not only with  the  luxury of  subtropical nature, but also by fostered towns  and villages?

 

Nadezhda  Venedictova