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A wedding in Karajala, an Azeri village in Georgia. Photos by Onnik Krikorian.

Today the two Prespa Lakes (the Great and Small Prespa Lakes) are divided between Albania, Greece, and the Republic of Macedonia. It is a secluded place, but enchanting and unpolluted. Photos by Tanya Mangalakova.

Il racconto del nostro inviato a Bucarest Francesco Martino per la Radio Televisione Svizzera sulla vigilia del primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali rumene [novembre 2009]

Voci dal Mondo, settimanale di RadioRai1, si occupa di 1989 e caduta del muro di Berlino. Tra gli interventi l'intervista del nostro giornalista Francesco Martino a Zhelyu Zhelev, il primo presidente democraticamente eletto della Bulgaria post-comunista [novembre 2009]

11 capi d'imputazione, tra i quali genocidio e crimini contro l'umanità. Il processo a Radovan Karadzic, è iniziato oggi ed è già stato rinviato. L'imputato - che intende difendersi da solo - non si è presentato all'udienza. Ma il Tribunale Penale Internazionale non ha intenzione di fermarsi. A Modem, trasmissione della Radio Svizzera Italiana, interviene Andrea Rossini di Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso [ottobre 2009]

Spanning just a few hundred kilometres, Montenegro stretches from the sea to enchanting, impervious mountains, encompassing pomegranate orchards, an arid and dry landscape, and lakes with small fishing villages. Photos were taken by Davide Sighele during a journey in northern Montenegro.

Photographer Stefano Barazzetta took a journey through the “Golden Valley”, over its bridges, and to its hinterlands. “With my pictures, I aim at thinking about our somehow flawed world view: things seem to be real only when we watch them on TV or read about them in newspapers. But when we lose sight of them, we have the feeling they never existed. Bosnia, however, proves that this view is unreal,” he tells us. Photos by Stefano Barazzetta.

In the summer of 2002, photographer Giuliano Matteucci used colour photography to explore the feelings of children in Kosovo. The photos reveal the children's curiosity and ability to live everyday life intensely. These pictures were exhibited in Rome, Palmanova, and Cortona at meetings promoted by the Italian Red Cross.

Mario Boccia was among the Italian photographers who reported on the Yugoslav wars. He travelled from Slovenia passing through Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia all the way to Kosovo. Here, we present some of his photographs.

Urban fabric torn by bullets and violence, but not destroyed. Pictures by Nicola Lux.

Every August, dozens of brass bands meet in Guča, a small village in southern Serbia. Séverine Petit, a young French photographer, was enchanted by the energy of the Festival. Here are some of her photographs.

Does a "post-Yugoslavia” exist? The word "post" suggests something that has already passed, according to a social pattern based on consumption change. In its meaning, it encourages a search for something culturally or physically abandoned. Pictures by Franco Revelli.

A return to Mostar and Bosnia-Herzegovina during the period immediately following the war. Glances catch moments frozen with the passing of time, fluctuating in the recent past. Photographs by Ivana Telebak.

On a journey of hundreds of kilometres through the Balkans starting from Mostar for the commemoration of the new “Stari Most” (Old Bridge), continuing on through central Bosnia then Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania and then northwards to Belgrade. A journey undertaken by OBC staff. Photographs by Luka Zanoni.

Two friends and photographers, Mauro Fagiani ( www.maurofagiani.it  ) and Mario Caroni (www.mariocaroni.it  ), walked through the streets of Sarajevo after reading Izet Sarajlic's poems. Here OBC presents their photographs.

In September 2003, “Osservatorio sui Balcani” supported a journey along the Danube river, from Vienna to Belgrade, to talk about Europe with people living on the two sides of the Adriatic. Faces and landscapes from that enchanting journey.

Faces met along the Danube during the initiative "Danubio, l'Europa si incontra" ("Danube, a meeting point in Europe") in September 2003. Pictures by Dejan Georgievski.

Christian Penocchio, born in Rouen, Normandy in 1964, is a photojournalist who lives and works in Brescia, Italy. In the early 1990's, Christian began to gather information about the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in cooperation with the humanitarian organization “Local Democracy Embassy in Zavidovici”. He returned to the country many times, even after the war, and witnessed Bosnia-Herzegovina's change first-hand.

A journey through post-war Kosovo to bear witness to disappearances and forced detentions. Pictures by Fabio Piana.

OBC's editorial staff travelled from Tuzla to Srebrenica, a city that remains a symbol of the Yugoslav war and, 10 years after the end of the conflict, is slowly rebuilding. A glimpse at today's city. A photo reportage by Gughi Fassino.

About three thousand boys live in the “sewers” of Bucharest, the tunnels carrying hot water pipes that criss-cross under the city. They are warm yet unhealthy, and for the homeless children who live there, they provide refuge from the cold and dangers of the street. Photos by Paolo Siccardi.

Ten years after the Dayton Agreement, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has brought cases of rape against Muslim Bosnian to trial in the jurisdiction of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Some women from the “Zene Zrtvarata” Association, important witnesses in these trials, have been subjected to threats.

After the bridge was rebuilt in Mostar, many people thought Muslims and Croats would live together again. However, all the efforts made to give Bosnians their bridge again did not produce the expected result. Of course nobody wants another fight, but nobody seems ready to live daily life together again. Photos by Antonello Nusca: www.antonellonusca.com.

A visual journey through Kosovo. Some of these photographs featured in a touring exhibition entitled "Kosovo - Note a margine di un conflitto" ("Kosovo – Margin Notes on a Conflict"). Pictures by Fabio Piana.

A dramatic photo report, in colour and black and white, on the commemoration ceremony in Srebrenica on the 10th anniversary of the massacre. Pictures by Rudi Della Bartola - E mail: rdb@rdbphotoreportage.com.

A Roma community makes its home near a Tirana cemetery on the western outskirts of the Albanian capital. In black and white, the deep contrasts of a marginalized world. Pictures by Mario Salzano.