The Putin-Friendly Billionaire Trying to Build the Garden of Eden
The Putin-Friendly Billionaire Trying to Build the Garden of Eden Tarpley Hitt © Provided by The Daily Beast Sundance Film Festival On New Year’s Eve of 2015, the government of Adjara, an administrative region in the southwest corner of Georgia, issued a decree granting a company called Zimo Ltd. permission to unearth two swamp cypresses and a 650-ton, 135-year-old tulip tree from the Black Sea coast. For a fee of 6,200 Lari (about $1,875), the company could haul the trees onto boats and ship them 25 miles north, to be replanted in an elaborate park owned by businessman a...
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