An old dream of mankind, or precisely  that  part  which  loves  dodging, has come true  -  any official can "pull"  out  a large amount of money from  a state  budget, and  sleep calmly, because  a penalty in Abkhazia exists  only on the  paper, or only  for petty thieves. All over the world there are officials that put or try to put a leg in the public pocket, but just at our place, unfortunately, nothing threatens eminent dodgers.

         A Minister easily may without any special trouble and straining, misappropriate a couple of million, and at best, he will be just  quietly dismissed, or he will voluntarily terminated. Yes, even in the end he privatizes a foreign car of the office for kopecks ,  this is  sacred – he has to drive on  something and this sets an example for young unemployed people.

         Impunity in our state has reached the level of national jeopardy - much of the budget" is absorbed», but could be spent for the country’s development, to help large families and pensioners. Psychologically it is no less dangerous, for it depraves the society and devaluates ​​moral values.

         Nineteen years passed after the war, during these years we connive at many violations. Now, when the country is slowly gaining paces of development, impunity becomes a main obstacle on our path.

         It is not only a lack of political will  of the country’s leadership - the current President is rather steep and unyielding, but has  not yet started activities in this field, apparently,  understanding that the society itself is not yet ready to overstep through kinship and friendship for the inevitability of punishment.
         Pre-election struggle demonstrates this connivance very clearly - among registered parliament candidates there are many personalities with doubtful reputation  having  managed to collect signatures in their support among the population. Certainly, relatives and friends, for whom there is no secret of all dark spots of the biography of their candidates, helped them, but an unseemly past does not seem a significant obstacle to them.

         The impression is  that a certain part of our society regards the Parliament,  a National Assembly, not as a legislature  to which must be elected  people with an impeccable reputation,  with considerable experience and social merit, but as a party of closed friends, giving  an opportunity to earn a  deputy ticket. Especially since a parliamentary immunity so nicely guarantees additional impunity.

         In any viable society a self-preservation instinct must work. Historians have long concluded   stating that  a society, not preserving  minimum of  moral obligations disappears, it  is absorbed  by  more sustainable communities.
Impunity like a cancer will affect our social organism, if the law does not start working, and Abkhazia will not have a sustainable future. We will languish as a second-class resort, where the young are sitting on their squats, and ordinary citizens   seek justice referring to  the thieves.

         By the way, recently my friend,  an Abkhaz businessman, whose  stolen car  was returned  by  criminals, has  offered a brilliant idea: to give 55 million rubles  every year not  to the police but to  thieves, and then the country will come to order.

         Perhaps if the government does not start to bring order  itself, I  will vote for such an  idea!

                                                                                                 Nadezhda Venediktova