Analysis of the Georgia election and a Florida survey on American expectations.
Less than a week until the most important American election in modern history. For Labyrinth, colleague Jalyssa Dugrot from Florida talked to young people about their views and expectations of the presidential candidates.
Georgia, on the other hand, is back on its feet after the elections in which the ruling "Georgian Dream" won. The people, the opposition and the international public do not recognize the results. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the only European leader who appeared in support of his Georgian colleagues. We talk to Ekaterine Basilaia - director of the Center for Media and Social Research of Georgia about the atmosphere in Tbilisi and the reactions after the elections.
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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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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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We all met the person detained for attempted assassination in Kyiv two years ago
The man who was walking around Kyiv branded in the colors of his country, went against it
Everyone who was in Kiev in the summer of 2022 inevitably met the person detained for the attempted assassination of the United States presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Among them is the author of Labyrinth, Kristina Atovska.
In this edition, we include the humanitarian from Germany, Christian Lutz, and the journalist from Italy, Cristina Brondoni, who also met the man in the center of Kyiv.
