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From Crime to Community: The Social Reuse of Confiscated Assets in Italy, Spain and Romania

Victor Ilie, Natalie Sclippa, Paolo Valenti, Álvaro García, Nacho Gallello, Luiza Vasiliu

From crime to community: the social reuse of confiscated assets is a cross-border investigation by Lavialibera (Italy), Scena9 (Romania) and Maldita.es (Spain) that explores reuse practices in the three countries highlighting their impact, challenges, and possible solutions.

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In Romania and Ukraine, the Danube Delta Is Hurting. Can We Do Anything to Heal It?

Viktoriia Hubareva, Oana Filip, Ioana Cîrlig

After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Danube Delta habitat became threatened by the war and the increased naval traffic it brought to the region. This is the story of that impact, but also of the solutions that people on both the Ukrainian and Romanian sides of the Delta are working on to protect this area.

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Sound as a Whole. In Conversation with Stephane Marin, Musician and Sound Artist

Vlad Hodrea

A group of creative people received a copious amount of lessons on sound in a sound art workshop organised by Semi Silent, under the guidance of Stephane Marin.

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“Refusing any kind of relationship with men just felt powerful”. Inside South Korea’s 4B Movement

Delia Marinescu

In South Korea, a radical feminist movement called 4B tries to completely reshape patriarchy by rejecting any kind of relationships with men. What made thousands of women make this life changing decision and what consequences does it have within Korean society?

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Romanian Photographer Explores Girlhood Around the World in 250 Portraits of Awesome

Patricia Cîrtog

Photographer Mihaela Noroc traveled in over 70 countries to show how diverse is the feminine beauty in the project “Atlas of beauty”. Her newest book, “Girls of the World: Portraits and Stories from Around the World”, is a gift for the ones curious to find out how girls live around the world.

English, please / Ukraine

Larisa Kalik: "I'm not afraid of explosions, but I would be afraid of harming a person with an inappropriate photo"

Ioana Pelehatăi, Larisa Kalik

For two years, a young journalist and photographer has been traveling to all the pain points on the map of Ukraine to show us the war that's unfurling in her home country.

English, please / War

Vadim Ghirda: “When I bring the camera to my eye, I am rid of fear”

Ioana Cîrlig

We spoke with photojournalist Vadim Ghirda about good and evil, disillusionment and hope, beauty and fear. About journalism and its increasingly complicated relationship with the truth, about the unsung heroes who make the work of war correspondents possible. About the baggage of suffering he has amassed in the 34 years that he has spent working at the heart of conflicts all over the world.

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“People won't be coming back here anytime soon.” Ukraine’s Eastern War Front in 7 Snapshots

Larisa Kalik, Larisa Kalik

A young journalist accompanies the Ukrainian military on a war tour on the eastern front, in Avdiivka, the town that the Russians have been struggling to capture for months.

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“We Would Have Liked to Spend This Summer Differently.” Volunteers for the Ukrainian Army

Larisa Kalik, Larisa Kalik

I went to Donbas with the young Ukrainian volunteer soldiers, ate pizza in the trenches and swam in a lake - that was when we weren't trying not to step on myself and when they weren't flying drones to shoot down tanks.

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Of Our Daily Plov

Ioana Șopov, Laurențiu Brătan

A journey through many cultures with one and the same dish - pilaf, plov, or whatever you may call it where you're from.

English, please / Ukraine

Two Ukrainian Independence Days in Romania

Ioana Pelehatăi, Volodymyr Artiukh

A Romanian journalist and a Ukrainian anthropologist compare and contrast notes on two different (yet at times strikingly similar) Ukraine Independence Day events in Romania's capital.

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“We are misfits of architecture.” A Conversation with & about Forensic Architecture

Nicoleta Moise

For the past decade, Forensic Architecture have been conducting extensive investigations from around the world, with and on behalf of individuals or communities directly affected by conflict, police forces, or border regimes.

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What My Internet Looks Like, After Researching Online Fake News for 6 Years

Codruța Simina, Ioana Șopov

When was the last time you reflected on how your imagination works?

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The Day the Queen Died

Irina Dumitrescu

I know this sounds morbid, but I have long wanted to be in London for the end of this reign.

English, please / În afara bulei

“I won't possibly see her again.” A Mother Explains How She Lost Her Daughter to the Children of the Sun Cult

Bogdan Dincă, Delia Marinescu

The mother of a current Children of the Sun member speaks about how her daughter has changed since moving to Children of Sun.

English, please / Spirituality

“I Realized I Was in a Cult.” The Children of the Sun Break the Silence

Bogdan Dincă, Delia Marinescu

The former members are accusing Adi de la Brad of sexual abuse, emotional abuse, exploitation through labor, being constrained against seeing a doctor, declaring him their children’s father, and preempting them from going to school.

English, please / War

We don’t talk about the war here

Michael Bird

I worked for over a month as a volunteer trying to help Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest, and this is what I found.

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The Red Calendar Day

Mikhail Kalarashan

Photograher Mikhail Kalarashan documented Victory Day, the 9th of May, in Chișinau. Less than 200 kilometres away, air-raid sirens are heard everyday.

English, please / War

The Future According to Igor: “We Either Win or Die”

Venera Dimulescu

The story of a 26-year-old Ukrainian about war, captivity and Chernobyl.

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"There is a war in their country." How Moldova Is Receiving Ukrainian Refugees

Andreea Câmpeanu, Delia Marinescu

We went to the Palanca border and to Chișinău, in order to write about both the people who managed to escape the bullets and those who are receiving them.

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“We Left All the Films Behind”

Ionuț Sociu, Marin Raica

They worked in film and television their entire lives, documenting stories of famine and war, traveling and filming throughout the former Soviet Union. On February 24, the war descended upon them.