You're listening to the Briefing, first broadcast on 28th October 2024 on Monocle Radio.
Hello and welcome to the Briefing, broadcasting to you live from Studio one here at Midori House in London.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
Coming up on today's program.
Special operation it was Russian elections.
We are not going to recognize these elections.
We'll follow the fallout over the disputed Georgian elections.
We'll examine the Indochinese relationship and how it's changing.
And we'll have an update on elections in Uruguay and Brazil.
Plus, one of the most fascinating things about the initial subway that was opened in 1904 is that it was by and large done by hand.
That means pickaxes, shovels, donkey carts pulling debris out.
We'll hear from the the New York Transit Museum director as the city's subway System celebrates its 120th anniversary.
All that right here on the Briefing with me, Georgina Godwin.
We begin the show in Georgia where the results of the weekend poll in which the governing party was declared victorious have been met with accusations of voting irregularities and allegations of Russian meddling.
Donald Rayfield, emeritus professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London, joins me now to discuss this.
Donald, many thanks for coming on the show.
Can you remind us briefly of what the Georgian people were voting on?
They were voting really on whether to pursue an EU oriented policy following EU rules on freedom of speech, on not having repressive rules about homosexuality or.
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Persecution of minorities and so on.