Azerbaijan between energy and security. Cap.2
It is a historical fact that Russia and Azerbaijan have deep ties. Among the same Azeris and in the streets of Baku the feeling of continuity with the nearby Federation due ...
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Azerbaijan between energy and security. Cap.1
The journey from the airport to the center of Baku shows the evolution of Azerbaijan in the last two decades thanks to oil revenues and the signing of the "Contract of ...
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The Balkans and the bad conscience - cap.3: Europe fall (end)
On the one hand the blocks of the last socialist building, on the other the glass of institutional buildings and the blue flags that are reflected inside. In between the articulated trams ...
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The Balkans and the bad conscience - cap.2: silence that applies to everyone
At the Zupci border, coming from Montenegro, it is easy to understand: wherever you enter, Bosnia is always different but basically always the same. The obsession with the double ...
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The Balkans and the bad conscience - cap.1: Bosnia invented
Until '91 Trieste was a door and the highway that went beyond, went straight without different acronyms. It pointed south to the mountains of Macedonia and Montenegro, where the Balkans ...
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From the Ukrainian front - chap. 5 (END): The men of war who do not tell
Ukraine with spring is less news. There was no resumption of hostilities in style. The snow goes away but all the rest remains. Donetsk airport, flooded with ...
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From the Ukrainian front - chap. 4: The Minsk agreements seen by a tank
Road between Luhansk and Debaltsevo. It is the northern part of the Donbass, now all filorussa. In front of the carcass of an 72 T, things are better understood. Touching the greased shirt of a ...
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From the Ukrainian front - chap. 3: What Azov are we talking about?
Broken glass and cracked walls. There is more order in the rubble of Donetsk airport than in Western minds busy understanding the crisis in Ukraine. Especially on ...
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From the Ukrainian front - cap.2: One day in Donetsk
Sleeping with light is not easy. With the flashes of the mortars then, even less. The windows vibrate, it seems the fortune. There...
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From the Ukrainian front - cap.1: Bus Kramatorsk-Donetsk
6 hours. The ticket is made by the driver, grizzled ladies who have not laughed for a few years. Costa 150 hryvnia, almost 5 € ....
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