1. Belgrade-Sarajevo: All Aboard!
(2010/east 30 - euroshock - English (United Kingdom))

In the 1970s and 1980s, Josip Broz Tito celebrated the “brotherhood and unity” of the six republics that formed his Yugoslavia. Train travel between Belgrade and Sarajevo was a constant and the carriages ...

2. Missiles to Stilettos in Dnipropetrovsk
(2010/east 30 - euroshock - English (United Kingdom))

Until two decades ago, Dnipropetrovsk, renamed in 1926 to honor Ukrainian Communist Party leader Grigory Petrovsky, was the main production site for Soviet-era intercontinental ballistic missiles. ...

3. Odessa, a city of ancient charm
(2008/east 22 - The Chinese in Italy - English (United Kingdom))

As I leave the railway station on a cool morning in September, after a 14 hour overnight trip from Kharkiv, a fascinating film set awaits me. A view emphasised by a surprisingly clear sky, enhancing the ...

4. Chernivtisi: on Von Rezzori’s traces
(2008/east 21 - Women in Poland - English (United Kingdom))

When Bucovina became part of the Kingdom of Romania in 1919, as recalled in On My Own Traces by Gregor Von Rezzori, the result was the end of the Hapsburg legend and the beginning of a new era for the ...

5. Belarus: where Slavs read the Koran
(2008/east 21 - Women in Poland - English (United Kingdom))

Mosques are the last thing you would expect to find in this land of lakes, rivers and fishermen. But it is a land inhabited by the Tartars, the descendants of Genghis Khan’s warriors, who practice a solemn ...

6. Sri Lanka Calling: Democracy on Hold
(2009/east 23 - Deo-Diversity? - English (United Kingdom))

Army troops have intensified their offensive against Tamil separatists. But propaganda blurs the details of a distant war and leaves few to tell its story. Those who do speak of a lush, green country where ...

7. Riga: Old Capital, ‘Nouveau’ Art
(2010/east 28 - The Agony of a Dictatorship - English (United Kingdom))

Writer Graham Greene once labeled Riga as Parisian and “an aristocratic Brighton in the throes of debauchery.” But the Latvian capital, home to some of the most remarkable Art Nouveau buildings in Europe, ...

8. Kazimierz: To the Heart Of Jewish Krakow
(2009/east 24 - 1989 The End of the “Other World” - English (United Kingdom))

Krakow’s Jewish quarter is rich in history and anecdotes. Its decadent, gentrified side recalls parts of Berlin and Paris. It produced cosmetics queen Helena Rubenstein and played wartime home to German ...

9. Afghanistan: Into the Storm
(2009/east 25 - Public enemy? - English (United Kingdom))

The Obama Administration has turned its attention from Baghdad to Kabul. As the American and NATO commitment grows, fragmented Afghanistan begins to look the way it did in the 1980s, when it was contested ...

10. Uzbekistan: Made-in-Karimov
(2009/east 27 - Finding Happiness Outside GDP - English (United Kingdom))

In the heart of Central Asia, landlocked Uzbekistan is a nation whose sprawling lands once saw the reign of warriors such as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. Under the dictatorial control Islam Karimov since ...

11. Kashmir: Fierceness in the mountains
(2009/east 26 - Minority effect - English (United Kingdom))

Hundreds of thousands of Indian troops have been stationed in Muslim-dominated Kashmir since 1947. Despite UN resolutions and three wars with Pakistan, the situation remains tense and unresolved. But the ...

12. The great wall of Bangladesh
(2009/east 26 - Minority effect - English (United Kingdom))

Bangladesh is among the poorest and most overpopulated nations on earth. Many of its citizens want nothing more than to leave, which neighboring India knows. As a result, New Delhi is gradually building ...

13. L’India, dove tutto è troppo grande e arcano
(2005/east 5 - Out of poverty )

Il Paese cammina. Non aspetta. Lontano dalle città la ricostruzioneprocede veloce. Ma, dopo lo Tsunami, arriva l’onda del business a tuttii costi. A sud di Pondichéry, tra i villaggi più colpiti, non si ...

14. L’ANIMA ANTICA DELLE TERRE DI MEZZO
(2004/east 2 - L'altra Europa)

... ilsangue.I luoghi “dove gli dei si parlano” sono statidistrutti prima dalla semplificazione dei mediae dalla dinamite dei clan o dalle bombe intelligentidei poteri planetari. Il senso di questoreportage ...

15. La cittadella della droga nei pressi di Kabul
(Approfondimenti/Articoli)

... da una comunità di emarginati, ai confini della più assoluta disperazione. Un reportage del Pais ci conduce in un inferno nell'inferno, un avamposto dell'incubo che si vive ogni giorno in uno dei luoghi ...

16. Michele Novaga
(Autori/Autori)

Giornalista freelance collabora con varie testate. Ha scritto reportage da Nepal, campi profughi Saharawi, Montenegro, Cuba, Romania, Albania, Serbia, Kosovo, Uzbekistan, Kazhakistan. Ha lavorato nella ...

17. Ceausescu: quando cade una dittatura
(2010/east 31 - Speciale reportage - L'altra Kabul)

... aveva perso anche il rispetto formale dei governi occidentali che in passato lo avevano onorato. Erano ?niti i tempi delle foto uf?ciali ritoccate, dei reportage a Bucarest, detta la petit Paris de l’est, ...

18. L’amnesia collettiva di noi polacchi
(2005/east 6 - Irene, Katrina, Rita... Warming effect)

... è anche questo. Una dimensione non fotografabile, un mondo che non troverete nelle immagini di nessun reportage, nemmeno in questo. Un mondo di sogni, memorie, soprattutto rimozioni, che incidono la carne ...

19. Il Caucaso, montagna di guerre e leggende
(2006/east 8 - Chi comanda)

  Labirinto di fede e follia. Finimondo di popoli e lingue perdute. Dove da secoli i vari credi convivono in un’armonia che non fa più notizia. La frontiera più strana e scomoda d’Europa. Che tutti vorrebbero ...

20. Bulgaria, mescolanza di sangue e miele
(2006/east 9 - Diario cinese)

  Già dalla frontiera te ne accorgi: i bulgari sono meno allegri dei rumeni. C’è nell’andatura e nella parlata la fierezza guerriera degli slavi e la tristezza rassegnata del post-Comunismo, condita ...