June 30 marked three years since Vitaliy Markiv was arrested at Bologna airport, when he and his wife arrived in Italy to visit his mother, who has lived and worked for 20 years in the town of Tolentino, Marche region, Italy. Vitaliy lived...
Read part 1: The Kremlin’s lobby in Europe: Germany and the UK “Voices” Now, let’s go to Italy, a country especially important for Ukraine. The Ukrainian diaspora is numerous there, and it was in Italy, where Russia’s...
On May 15, 2020, one of the most popular publications in Italy Il Venerdi di Repubblica published an article and podcast by journalist Mario Calabresi about the life and death of Andy Rocchelli, directly underlining Vitaliy Markiv’s...
Due to the spread of COVID-19 in northern Italy and the introduction of emergency measures, the Italian government has decided to suspend all judicial activity until March 31. In addition, the Lombardy region and its regional centre Milan...
In late summer 2019, three Italian journalists – Cristiano Tinazzi, Danilo Elia, Ruben Lagattolla – and Ukrainian journalist Olha Tokariuk set out to re-create the story of the fatal shooting of Andrea Rocchelli and Russian...
Together, Cristiano Tinazzi, Olga Tokariuk, Danilo Elia and Ruben Lagattolla set out on a long and delicate mission, travelling to Ukraine, Russia, France, the UK and Italy to investigate in-situ, interview old and new witnesses, and...
Background On June 12, 2019, the Pavia court in Italy sentenced National Guardsman Vitaliy Markiv to 24 years for alleged complicity in the killing of Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli near occupied Sloviansk on May 24, 2014. For the...
The sentence was pronounced after a long trial, which Markiv’s lawyer, Raffaele Della Valle, who was also one of Enzo Tortora’s lawyer in the famous court case on organized crime in Naples in 1983, was shocked by the verdict, asserting...
On November 20, 2019, defense attorneys representing the interests of Ukraine and authorized by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine also filed a statement of appeal against the decision of the Pavia court. Both requests were filed with the...
The statement of reasons contains 176 pages. The judges state that the accused was on Mount Karachun on that tragic day, May 24, 2014, that he could see the Zeus Ceramica factory from his position, and that he had good visual control of...
How can you brainwash people into believing what you want? Russia has it down to a science. In Soviet times, journalism and philology students studied spets, or combat propaganda – the art of sowing discord in the enemy’s ranks by...
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