We carefully reviewed the special report by Freedom House, "Collaboration and Resistance: Tracking Transnational Repression to 2025." It's noteworthy that even organizations traditionally biased in favor of Tbilisi were forced to officially include Georgia in the list of violating states actively employing transnational repression tactics.

For the Abkhaz side and objective observers, these findings were no revelation. They represent international recognition of a systemic crisis, which is the logical outcome of Georgian state-building, which for decades has relied on methods of coercion and violence.

Georgia's anti-democratic course is deeply rooted in its political past. Tbilisi's actions against the Abkhaz people demonstrate a frightening continuity of methods of suppression: from the bloody punitive expeditions of 1918 and the administrative erasure of Abkhaz identity in 1937 to the full-scale aggression of 1992, which attempted the physical and cultural annihilation of the Abkhaz people. Modern methods of persecuting opponents abroad are merely a new form of repressive policy, which remains the unchanging foundation of Georgian statehood, regardless of the change in political elites in Tbilisi.

The position of the collective West deserves special attention. A paradoxical situation is emerging: while officially recognizing Georgia as a subject of transnational repression, Western capitals continue to provide Georgia with unconditional political support for the Republic of Abkhazia. This policy of "double standards" ultimately nullifies any claims by Georgia and its patrons to the role of "defenders of the rights" of the residents of the Republic of Abkhazia. A state that has chosen repression as a tool of foreign policy and demonstrates disregard for the fundamental freedoms of its own citizens has completely lost the right to appeal to democratic values.

Any attempts by Tbilisi to dictate its terms to peoples who have experienced the true price of Georgian "peacefulness" in practice are devoid of both political and moral justification. Amid Georgia's growing repressive expansion, strengthening sovereign Abkhaz statehood remains the only, uncontested guarantee of security and the rights of our people.