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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


Turchia: tra repressione e segnali di pace

Il processo di pace tra il governo di Ankara e la minoranza curda in Turchia sembra essersi arenato dopo lo scioglimento del partito curdo DTP da parte della Corte Costituzionale. Un'intervista a Gilda Lyghounis di Osservatorio sui Balcani a cura di Amisnet [dicembre 2009]


Presidenziali in Romania. Rivince Basescu

Per la Radio Televisione Svizzera un servizio del nostro inviato a Bucarest Francesco Martino sull'esito delle elezioni presidenziali tenutesi in Romania [dicembre 2009]


La rivoluzione 20 anni dopo

A Voci dal Mondo, di RadioRai1, l'intervista a cura di Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso a Ioan Savu, uno dei protagonisti della rivoluzione rumena del 1989 [dicembre 2009]


The other side of Romania – Lorenza Larsen Khurana

A trip through Bukovina, Maramureş and Transylvania in August 2009. Here people are proud, friendly, hard-working, traditional, very faithful and often - due to lack of work - obliged to leave their marvellous country. Pictures by Lorenza Larsen Khurana.


The revolution. Romania, 1989-2009

A journey to Bucharest and Timisoara twenty years after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 in search of the places and symbols of the Revolution. A photo gallery by Francesco Martino.


Wedding in Karajala – Onnik Krikorian

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


Prespa Lakes – Tanya Mangalakova

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.


Nei suoi romanzi ha raccontato le persecuzioni subite dalla minoranza slovena durante il fascismo e la sua esperienza di deportato nei campi di concentramento nazisti. Intervista a cura di Marco Pontoni dell'ufficio stampa Provincia Autonoma di Trento [Italia, 2009]


Presidenziali in Romania

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]


They have no memory of communism and Ceausescu. They were too young to remember, or were not born yet. They are the Generation '89, they look towards the future, they want to change Romania. A videoreportage by Francesco Martino and Davide Sighele


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


Il 1989 e il primo presidente bulgaro

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]


Il grande assente

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]


Our correspondents from Baku and Yerevan, Arzu Geybullayeva and Onnik Krikorian, visited an ethnic Azeri village in Karajala, eastern Georgia. A photo-reportage


Journey in Montenegro - Davide Sighele

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.


In the Golden Valley - Stefano Barazzetta

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.


Children in Kosovo - Giuliano Matteucci

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.


The Balkans - Mario Boccia

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 fabrics - Nicola Lux

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


Guča Festival - Séverine Petit

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.


(Post) Yugoslavia outlook - Franco Revelli

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.


Far glances - Ivana Telebak

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.


The Balkans - Luka Zanoni

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.


Moments of an ordinary history - M. Fagiani and M. Caroni

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.


Danube river - D. Georgievski, D. Sartori, M. Vender

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 along the Danube - Dejan Georgievski

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.


Bosnia-Herzegovina - Christian Penocchio

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.


Absences - Fabio Piana

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


Srebrenica, 10 years later - Gughi Fassino

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.