Multimedia

A group of linguistics researchers, on a mission to collect records of northern Albanian dialects, embark on a fascinating journey through words, stately mountains, and far-flung places. Pictures by Andrea Pandini.

On the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the Women in Black gathered together to ask for "solidarity" and "responsibility" – Pictures by Ilaria Scaglia.

A father and son set out on a bicycle trip from Pristina to the Albanian shore of Lake Ohrid, passing through Tirana, on a pedal-powered journey of encounters with new people and landscapes. Pictures by Paolo Martino.

Green vineyards and olive groves, historic architecture, country roads, agricultural lands, and the deep blue sea give Istria its unique cultural and environmental heritage. Pictures by Andrea Pandini.

In Srebrenica, Bosniak people commemorate the 1995 genocide and bury victims who now, after many years, have finally been identified. At the same time in Bratunac, a few kilometres away from Srebrenica, Bosnian Serbs remember their victims too. A Photo reportage by Mario Salzano.

Goli Otok is a small island, currently part of Croatia, in the northern Adriatic. In July 1949, still part of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, it was chosen as the location for a concentration camp for Tito regime opponents. Pictures by Anna Da Sacco, Nicola Lott and Andrea Pandini.

They were from other Yugoslav Republics but had been living in Slovenia for years. With Slovenian independence, they lost their rights of citizenship and became the “izbrisani”: the "erased people". Pictures by Fabrizio Giraldi.

A trip to Nagorno Karabakh. Pictures by Matteo Olivieri.

In 2004, Slovenia entered the European Union as a member state. At that point, the border between Slovenia and Italy, once part of the Iron Curtain, became permeable. Today, thanks to the Schengen Agreement, the border is free and open. Pictures by Anna Da Sacco.

A photographic journey to Georgia for a glimpse of the country's art, nature, and new frontiers. Pictures by Matteo Olivieri.

They were farmers. They lived in the mountains of Dukagjin. Today they are refugees in their own country, outcast and poor. They have found shelter just outside Shkoder. Pictures by Giovanni Cobianchi.

Discovering Armenian monuments located between the capital Yerevan and the country's border with Nagorno Karabakh. Pictures by Matteo Olivieri.

A journey from the Black Sea port of Batumi to the snow-covered peak of Mount Kazbek, a 5,047-meter-high dormant volcano. As legend goes, Prometheus was chained to this mountain because he revealed the secret of fire to mankind. Pictures by Luca Sermoneda.

A trip of discovery into Armenia's religious world, its monasteries, and its ceremonies. Photos by Matteo Olivieri.

It is a world where roads are always under construction and, in the summer, beds move outside to rooftops for sleeping under the starry skies. A photo reportage from Dyiarbikir and Mardin, cities in Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia, a unique region willing to be discovered. Pictures by Silvia Pagliacci.

Five hundred thousand bunkers from the time of Enver Hoxha's communist regime are still scattered across Albania. Their builders were set on defending Albania from invasions. With a lot of time and a little creativity, some bunkers have been converted into restaurants, others into shelters for the poor. Pictures by Mimoza Dhima.

October 2008: three months after the war between Georgia and Russia, “Assemblea Teatro”, an historic acting company with an international perspective, brought dancers and buskers to theatres and streets across Georgia. Pictures by Valerio Tosi Beleffi.

Some views of the astonishing Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia. Pictures by Luka Zanoni.

“Here and Elsewhere”, a project about immigrants in northern Italy, has delivered a multimedia DVD with interviews to 30 new citizens of the Area of Vallagarina in Trentino-Alto Adige region. Pictures by Francesco Pernigo.

New buildings are rising everywhere in Yerevan, especially on one central street which is now home to several new commercial and residential apartment buildings. The building have been finished, but they stand vacant. A trip through the old, new, and future houses of the Armenian capital city. Pictures by Giorgio Comai (August 2009).

A winter trip to Romania. From Transylvanian cities to the country's border with the Ukraine. Photographs by Anna Cavarzan.

A journey across Georgia from Tbilisi to Kakheti. Photographs by Francesco Trecci.

A journey across western Macedonia in search of the “Torbeshi”, a community of Slavs whose long-ago conversion to Islam shapes the group's unique religious and cultural identity. Pictures by Tanya Mangalakova.

Nella trasmissione Il vaso di ... di Radio Koper/Capodistria Stefano Lusa affronta i casi di BIljana Plavsic e Radovan Karadzic. Tra gli ospiti il corrispondente dalla Bosnia di Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Dario Terzic [settembre 2009]

Ad un anno dal conflitto in Ossezia un'intervista al giornalista di Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Giorgio Comai da parte di Radio Radicale [agosto 2009]

Dopo lo stallo una nuova tornata elettorale in Moldavia. Per Radio3Mondo l'intervista all'inviato di Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Giorgio Comai [luglio 2009]

Un reportage teatrale di e con Paolo Vittone, su gentile concessione di Radio Popolare [Bosnia Erzegovina, 2009]

Ha vinto le elezioni, è il nuovo leader del centro-destra e tra poco sarà il nuovo premier della Bulgaria. E' il sindaco di Sofia, Boyko Borisov, che promette di fare piazza pulita di criminalità e corruzione e di ristabilire buone relazioni con l'UE. Francesco Martino, corrispondente da Sofia per Osservatorio Balcani, spiega chi è Borisov e il perché del suo grande seguito popolare, ma anche le ombre sul suo passato e i problemi che dovrà affrontare per superare la crisi globale [luglio 2009]

Si vota in Bulgaria per le parlamentari. Favorito il centro-destra guidato dal sindaco di Sofia Boyko Borissov. Il nostro corrispondente dalla Bulgaria Francesco Martino per la Radio Televisione Svizzera [luglio 2009]