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| Abkhazia denied information about the sale of Stalin's dacha on Lake Ritsa |
| 2024-01-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Joseph Stalin's dacha on the territory of the Ritsinsky National Park is a national treasure of Abkhazia and cannot be transferred into private hands. This statement was made on January 14 by the head of the State Dacha Administration of Abkhazia Beslan Kvitsinia, reports Sputnik Abkhazia. As Kvitsinia explained, the opposition media had distributed a video the day before in which a certain person claims to be the owner of Stalin’s dacha and bought it for 850 thousand rubles. According to the hero of the video, he is going to build a resort on the site of Stalin's dacha. Kvitsinia denied information about the sale of Stalin’s dacha into private hands and pointed out that such rumors appear from time to time, but they should not be trusted. “We would like to remind you that the spread of rumors around this dacha is not a new story. So, back in 2005, there was information in the media that Russian businessman and billionaire Oleg Deripaska allegedly wanted to buy the dacha. And the Abkhazian authorities even announced the amount of the deal - $10 million. After the refutation, they began to say that the object was sold to the then mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov,” Kvitsiniya said in a statement. The head of the Department of State Dachas of Abkhazia called on the citizens of Abkhazia to be more selective in choosing sources of information and to trust only official statements of the authorities. Stalin's dacha on the northern shore of Lake Ritsa was built in 1947. Joseph Stalin liked to relax in Abkhazia, there are several dachas built for him - in Gagra, Athos, Sukhumi, but the dacha on Ritsa was his favorite, here he managed to relax five times. After Stalin's death, the dacha was used by Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. All dachas are state owned by Abkhazia and the authorities preserve their historical appearance. Earlier, IA Regnum reported that the Parliament of Abkhazia ratified the agreement on the transfer of the Pitsunda state dacha to Russia at an extraordinary meeting. The agreement provides for the gratuitous transfer to Russia of a property complex in the city of Pitsunda, as well as the lease of land plots with an area of 180 hectares and an adjacent section of the sea. The land remains the property of Abkhazia. The Abkhaz opposition opposed the ratification of the treaty, believing that the document contained clauses that contradicted the country's constitution, and organized a protest in Sukhumi, which turned into riots. |
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