Antonio Russo, was born in Chieti, Italy, 40 years ago. Based in Tblisi since July 2000, he was the special correspondent of Radio Radicale from the Caucasus, active in the region between October 1999 and January 2000. Before the Chechen conflict, Antonio Russo was Radio Radicale's reporter from Kosovo, where he remained - the only western journalist present in the region during the NATO bombing campaign -until 31 March 1999 reporting daily on the ethnic cleansing against Kosovo Albanians. During those weeks, he also collaborated with several other Italian as well as international news agencies and TVs. He escaped the Serb rounding ups joining a convoy of Kosovar refugees fleeing to Macedonia on a train. The convoy was eventually stopped, and he reached Skopjie on foot. He was missing in action for two entire days. Antonio Russo has also reported for Radio Radicale from Algeria, during the bloodiest years of the Governmental struggle against fundamentalists; in Burundi and Rwanda documenting the war in the great lakes region and in Ukraine, Colombia and Sarajevo. Recently, Antonio was awarded two of the most important prizes for Italian journalists: Premio Ischia and the premio Sarteano. On the war in Chechnya he already collected dozens of hours of footage as well as pictures to document the human rights situation. They are posted at RadioRadicale.it.