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Category: Interviews

“Slovakia needs to be built from scratch”

An interview with sociologist Michal Vašečka. Interviewer: Aureliusz M. Pędziwol.

July 14, 2025 - Aureliusz M. Pędziwol Michal Vašečka

Political leaders are becoming their own satire

A conversation with Armando Iannucci, satirist, writer and director. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze

VAZHA TAVBERIDZE: It surely must be a bountiful time to be a satirist, in this age of madness…

ARMANDO IANNUCCI: You know, you sort of want to be out of a job, really. It’s far better that the world functions well, rather than so badly that the only thing you can do is say something entertaining about how bad it's gotten. And as we’ve discussed many times, the people in power have become their own satire, because they all believe in entertainment. It's all about attention-seeking and making the headlines.

July 8, 2025 - Armando Iannucci Vazha Tavberidze

Damian Kocur: “I don’t have the moral right to show the war as it is because I am not Ukrainian”

People continue to suffer on the front line of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. However, those more removed from the fighting also face great mental anguish. This is the reality that drives the Polish film submitted for this year’s Oscars.

June 30, 2025 - James Low

Repression in Azerbaijan

An interview with Cesare Figari Barberis, a postdoctoral researcher focused on the politics of the South Caucasus. Interviewer: Aleksej Tilman.

June 24, 2025 - Aleksej Tilman Cesare Figari Barberis

Zelenskyy has a lot of cards

An interview with Major General Mick Ryan. Interview by Vazha Tavberidze.

June 9, 2025 - Mick Ryan Vazha Tavberidze

Russia is stealing Ukrainian grain. It wants to do so without any restrictions

Interview with Kateryna Yaresko, a journalist with the Myrotvorets Center and the head of the Business Journalism and Digital Media Department at the National University of Economics in Kharkiv. Interviewer: Kateryna Pryshchepa.

May 12, 2025 - Kateryna Pryshchepa Kateryna Yaresko

“Russia has lost sensitivity to death. Death validates it now”

Interview with Andrey Makarychev on Putin’s fetish for May 9th, the death cult of Homo Putinus, and how Russia became a retro-state. Interviewer Vazha Tavberidze.

May 9, 2025 - Andrey Makarychev Vazha Tavberidze

Europe is the only alternative

An interview with Salome Zourabichvili, fifth president of Georgia. Interviewer: Wojciech Wojtasiewicz

WOJCIECH WOJTASIEWICZ: Madame President, I would like to start by asking about your political plans and how best to resolve the current political and constitutional crisis in Georgia?

SALOME ZOURABICHVILI: Don’t ask me about plans, because there are no plans when you are fighting. Practically speaking, Georgia now has a dictatorship, or a Russian-style regime. Since the so-called elections, which were clearly manipulated, the Georgian Dream parliament and government have been pursuing repressive measures in the country. Day after day, they are applying measures to crush the protests and civil society.

May 5, 2025 - Salome Zourabichvili Wojciech Wojtasiewicz

Fossil fuels are a geopolitical weapon

An interview with Svitlana Romanko, founder and director of “Razom We Stand”. Interviewer: Aureliusz M. Pędziwol

AURELIUSZ M. PĘDZIWOL: Can you tell me a bit about your organization, which is called Razom We Stand?

SVITLANA ROMANKO: In Ukrainian razom means together. In the very first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine I initiated an international campaign called “Stand with Ukraine”. Its goal was to end the global fossil fuel addiction that feeds Vladimir Putin’s war machine. Our organization developed from this initiative and today we are made up of 15 brilliant individuals who reside in Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk, but we also have staff spread across in Europe, especially in Germany.

May 5, 2025 - Aureliusz M. Pędziwol Svitlana Romanko

“All wars come at the expense of human life. No one thinks about the little man”

Interview with Polina Zherebtsova, a Chechen Russian writer and human rights activist. Interviewer: Karolina Zub-Lewińska.

April 7, 2025 - Karolina Zub-Lewińska Polina Zherebtsova

“A bad peace… would be worse than no peace”

Interview with Admiral Giuseppe Dragone, the Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze.

March 12, 2025 - Giuseppe Cavo Dragone Vazha Tavberidze

Far from smooth, but successful. Slovak experience in settling the issue of national minority rights during the EU accession

An interview with Ábel Ravasz, a Slovak sociologist and politician of Hungarian nationality. Interviewer: Halyna Hychka.

February 28, 2025 - Ábel Ravasz Halyna Hychka

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