Mauro Carlo Zanella
35th Day of Protests in Tirana
This Saturday, too, the challenge was met, and the Flamingo Revolution continues to soar. The square was filled with a sea of tens of thousands of people who had come from all over. On Thursday, July 2, clashes broke out…
Albania: The Gentle Revolution
During the day in Tirana, life goes on as usual: people go to work, college students prepare for exams, children play in public parks, retirees have coffee at one of the many cafés and chat for hours… The first tourists,…
Yurii Sheliazhenko: “The world will be better without armies and wars”
In Kiev, I met up with Yurii Sheliazhenko, recently released after arbitrary detention; we met up with another conscientious objector, Oleksandr Ivanov, a pacifist and Quaker. Oleksandr was born in Donetsk and has lived in Kiev since 2015, when the…
NATO Bases and the Armed Forces, Except When Serving as UN Blue Helmets, Endanger Our Security
The Casalecchio di Reno Massacre Exactly 35 years ago, on 6 December 1990, an out-of-control Italian Air Force Aermacchi MB-326 crashed into the Salvemini Institute in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna), killing 12 young people and injuring 88 others, including students…
Yurii Sheliazenko: “The protests are good, but there are still some Ukrainians who believe in the war.”
In Kiev, I met Yurii Sheliazenko, a Quaker conscientious objector and leader of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, whom I had met and interviewed during my trip to Ukraine last August, and his friend Artem Denysov, also a Quaker. They took…
Yurii Sheliazenko: “We must change the narrative of the inevitability of war.”
A friend writes to me: ‘You really have courage!’, but the truth is that I am very scared, I have an appointment to confirm with Yurii Sheliazenkho, Ukranian conscientious objector and at the last moment I would like to postpone…
Kiev, the wall of the fallen
August 18, was Sunday and in the ancient and splendid churches and cathedrals of Kiev resounded the evocative melodies of prayers and rites, intoned by the popes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, independent and separate from that of the Moscow…
Kiev, the war is there, but you can’t see it
Kiev is a very large and very beautiful city, tidy, and clean, with churches, ancient buildings, others of clear Soviet imprint, and finally very modern skyscrapers. I arrived on Saturday 17 August at 5.30 in the morning, after the driver,…
Russian missiles on Kiev, war propaganda?
I reported a conversation yesterday afternoon with a friend from Rome: “Hi Mauro, but wasn’t there a Russian attack on Kiev last night? Did you hear the bombings? Were you afraid?” “My mother-in-law used to say: “Tempo de guera più…
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