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Author: Vazha Tavberidze

Putin won Alaska

Interview with Volodymyr Dubovyk, Professor of International Relations at Odesa’s Mechnikov National University and Senior Fellow at CEPA. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze.

August 29, 2025 - Vazha Tavberidze Volodymyr Dubovyk

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

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 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

“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

“We rolled out a red carpet for a war of aggression”

Interview with Gabrielius Landsbergis, the former foreign minister of Lithuania. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze.

February 14, 2025 - Gabrielius Landsbergis Vazha Tavberidze

“There’s nowhere left for Russia to escalate beyond nuclear weapons, and they don’t want to use them any more than we do”

Interview with US Army Col. (ret) Liam Collins, the executive director of the Madison Policy Forum and a fellow at the New America Foundation. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze.

December 6, 2024 - Liam Collins Vazha Tavberidze

Revisiting the lessons of the Russo-Georgian War

An interview with Heidi Tagliavini, head of the independent international fact-finding mission into the August 2008 Russia-Georgia war. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze

November 21, 2024 - Heidi Tagliavini Vazha Tavberidze

Putin is caught like a rabbit in the headlights

An interview with Col. Philip Ingram (ret.), former UK military intelligence officer and NATO planner. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze

September 10, 2024 - Philip Ingram Vazha Tavberidze

Putin’s pyrrhic gains in Ukraine

An interview with retired United States Army Major General Gordon Skip Davis Jr. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze.

June 13, 2024 - Gordon Skip Davis Jr Vazha Tavberidze

The Orthodox churches still think in imperial terms

An interview with Cyril Hovorun, a professor of philosophy at University College Stockholm. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze.

VAZHA TAVBERIDZE: I have read your essay published in 2015, titled “Christian duty in Ukraine”. I wanted to ask, nine years later, what is the duty of a Christian when it comes to Ukraine?

CYRIL HOVORUN: I think that duty stems from the Gospel, from the words of Jesus. Everything that Russia does actually violates all ten commandments, which are basic for all monotheistic religions, but particularly for Christianity.

April 11, 2024 - Cyril Hovorun Vazha Tavberidze

We need to remember what this is – a war of aggression

An interview with Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze.

March 22, 2024 - Jens Stoltenberg Vazha Tavberidze

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