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9 May: Why It Should be Celebrated

Davide Sighele | 26 May 2010 ita

9 May, the Day of Europe. Europe scared by the severe Greek crisis threatening to spill over to other countries in the Eurozone. Today, more than ever, we must rediscover the ultimate values of staying together and rework a political agreement grounded in EU institutions. A comment



Timişoara, 1989: the days of the revolution

Timişoara, 1989: the days of the revolution

Timişoara | Francesco MartinoDavide Sighele | 3 November 2009 ita

Ioan Savu used to work in a detergent factory in Timişoara. On the 16th of December of 1989 he took the streets with thousands of fellow citizens. Four days later he was in front of a disbelieving Romanian Prime Minister to demand free elections and Ceauşescu's resignation. A life and a revolution.



Ceausescu who? The unknown past of Romanian '89

Ceausescu who? The unknown past of Romanian '89

Bucharest | Francesco MartinoDavide Sighele | 26 October 2009 ita

The Romanian generation born in 1989, what they do not know about their past, and what they want from the future. A reportage from Bucharest on the memory of Ceasescu in nowadays' Romania, where the events of 1989 continue to divide society and generations



Armenia, perestroika, and cosmic rays

Armenia, perestroika, and cosmic rays

Davide Sighele | 13 October 2009 ita

Scientific research in independent Armenia after the Cold War and the demise of USSR. An interview with Ashot Chilingarian, director of Yerevan Physics Institute



Lips, eyes, ears

Lips, eyes, ears

Davide Sighele | 30 July 2009 ita

Michael studies Indo-European languages. Gianni is Arbereshe and teaches Albanian at the Calabria University. Monica is the first in Italy to have obtained a PhD in Albanology. A group of linguists and a journey in Albania through words, stately peaks, and places of borders



The Wall, the Walls

The Wall, the Walls

Marjola Rukaj | 4 June 2009 ita

In 1989, Fatos Lubonja was in jail serving time as a political prisoner. It was there that he received the first news of what was going on in Eastern Europe. In the beginning, it seemed as if what was going on would not have any impact in Albania. An interview



Teaching Across the Border

Teaching Across the Border

Davide Sighele | 1 October 2008 ita

Renzo Nicolini teaches both in Trieste and Buje, in Istria. He has a unique point of view on education alongside the border, which has changed greatly over recent years.
An interview



Best friends

Best friends

Davide Sighele | 25 September 2008 ita bhs

One of her best-known novels is Amiche per la pelle (Best Friends), a story of four migrant women in Trieste. However, there is also a fifth actor in the story. An interview with the writer Laila Wadia



In the Heart of Europe

In the Heart of Europe

Davide Sighele | 24 September 2008 ita

It is the daily of the Slovene minority in Italy. For years, it has been the paper "of the border". Now it is in the heart of new Europe and it covers a rapidly changing world. Its story is told by one of its reporters. An interview with Breda Pahor



Barriers, Borders, Bridges

Barriers, Borders, Bridges

Davide Sighele | 11 September 2008 ita

Melita Richter is a sociologist and cultural mediator. Over the last years, she has implemented many projects related to the border between Italy and the Balkans. Their participants have been high school boys and girls. Our interview



Multiculturalism, the Heritage of Istria

Multiculturalism, the Heritage of Istria

During the 80s a group of intellectuals proponed the idea of Istrian identity based on multilingualism and multiculturalism. One of them was Ivan Jakovcic, at present president of the Region of Istria



In December 1989, 20 years ago, Timişoara citizens fought alone against the regime of Ceausescu. The memories of Ioan Savu, one of the leaders of that revolution, and professor Miodrag Milin, the first to collect the stories of those days. A videoreportage by Davide Sighele and Francesco Martino

Philosopher, dissident, politician. Zhelyu Zhelev has been the first Bulgarian president democratically elected after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A videointerview [Bulgaria, 2009]

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