Pressure is Growing for Negotiations
It's been exactly three years since the start of the war in Ukraine. After US President Donald Trump came to power, US support for Ukraine has completely changed and the pressure to start peace talks has increased. We talk to Olena Halushka from Kiev, co-founder of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory, about whether Ukrainians are ready to give up rare minerals and meet Trump's demands, as well as about public opinion in Ukraine about the pressure from the US.
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Macedonia got a new President - Eastern European countries are fighting for democracy
Analysis of Macedonian diplomacy, Callings from Georgia and Ukraine on the situation with the protests and the war.
The first guest in this edition of Labyrinth is the former Ambassador of Macedonia to Sweden and Romania, Tihomir Ilievski. We talked about the oath taken by the new President and the reactions it caused among our neighbors. Despite the reactions and difficulties in bilateral relations, the diplomat is still optimistic about the European integration of Macedonia, as well as about the normalization of relations in the entire Balkans.
In Georgia, massive civil protests are taking place over the law on "foreign agents" which moves the country away from the European path, but also seriously threatens the livelihood and freedom of Georgian citizens. From Tbilisi, we were joined by Ekaterine Basilaia - director of the Center for Media and Social Research of Georgia, who explained in more detail what this law is and why so many people took to the streets. We discussed the use of excessive force by the police in arresting peaceful protesters and the legal fight to protect those detained.
In Labyrinth, we also included the volunteer in the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces, Volodymyr Sapekhin. Volodymyr has been going to the fronts and back for more than two years. We talked about the current situation on the fronts, about the progress of Russian forces in the Kharkiv region, but also about his personal feelings about the two realities he lives in.
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The Profiling as a tool in the fight against modern crime
Forensic profiling is the key to uncovering unknown perpetrators of crimes worldwide.
Can profiling as a globally accepted tool in criminalistics help in the faster detection of unknown perpetrators and the clearing of numerous crimes in our region? Do we need formalization of profiling within police institutions and legal changes in order to implement these investigative techniques?
For profiling as a set of psychological-criminological techniques and its application in the region and the world, see in the n ew edition of Labyrinth.
The guest in the new edition of Labyrinth is * Popović, profiler, psychologist and expert in criminalistics.
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France is dealing with the new political situation – Serbia is on its feet after the terrible accident in Novi Sad
Analysis of the situation in France and Georgia after the elections and testimony from the protests in Serbia
After the elections in France, a new momentum took place in French politics. The coalition is on glass legs, and new elections are possible only after a year - explains in Labyrinth, the political advisor from the ranks of Macron's party, Mathias Vasquez. Vasquez was also part of the observation mission of the elections in Georgia and gives us more detailed information about the irregularities in the implementation of the elections, which resulted in mass protests.
The young director Leonid Velkovski, who is currently studying in Novi Sad, is also a guest in Labyrinth, and he conveys to us the atmosphere of the mass protests that took place there after the terrible accident at the railway station in which 14 people died.
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