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looked like exotic birds in cages, on Saturday afternoon at the Gay Pride in Bucharest. The barriers delimiting one of the capital's main boulevard, the one that leads to Piazza Unirii Square of the Constitution, while all around the parade policemen in riot gear, who were certainly more of the protesters, ensure the safety of participants. Every year since 2005, in fact, since in Bucharest took place the first Gay Pride, neo-fascist groups threaten the event. In 2007 a group of activists has been beaten on the subway at the end of the parade.

Even the two counter-demonstrations, a Friday night, for marriage and against unmarried couples and the other Saturday morning, organized by the group "Noua dreapta" openly neo-fascist. Fortunately, a few participants.

The theme of this year I've been running civil unions, which in Romania appear to be a mirage. Indeed, according to a story about ten days ago several news websites published on homosexual, Parliament is to pass a law that would prohibit. Symbolically, Saturday none of the local politicians came to give support to the LGBT community.

There were, however, the British Ambassador, Swedish and Dutch (I've spoken, simple and delicious), and a French MEP and a member of English, but no Italian. Given the political climate that is haunting the peninsula, it is not surprising.

Before the Pride, the site of Accept, the association for the rights of gay men who organized the event and the festival of homosexual culture that preceded it, the atmosphere was festive but tense. In Romania, especially in smaller towns, do outing, declared their gender orientation, is a practice that few people still feel the risk. Homophobia is widespread at all levels and ages, even more than in Italy. And the local church plays a strong role in this desperate attempt to stop a river running underground, but more and more violent.

L and homosexual relationships are more common than you think. Speaking with the students discover a world you do not expect an open universe the discovery of a less conventional sexuality. But in fact, is a hidden underground river, and that is hard to come out, and many members of the gay community did not participate in Pride for fear of being recognized among the small crowd.

We were all young and govanissimi. A few, not more than a few hundred, including many foreigners and a large group of photographers and journalists, more girls than the boys.

The event, despite the path militarized, was joyous and colorful, with the same expressions of joy and euphoria that can be seen on our streets in such circumstances. Transsexuals, gays and lesbians have given birth to a party open-air dance music with loud whistles clothes balloons and flowers. A huge rainbow flag, like a snake underground, has gained ground in the short path. If we think that homosexual relations were decriminalized in 2002 alone, the Gay Pride was a success.

Parlmento arrived in front of the Palace, built by the famous Ceau Ş escu, in a square of asphalt burned by the sun, it seemed to be in a Desert of democracy, a stretch where arid i diritti stentano a sbocciare. Sembra assurdo che nell'Europa del terzo millennio ci siano luoghi in cui non siano riconosciute le unioni tra persone dello stesso sesso. Il passo che anche da noi sembra difficile afferrare, è che i diritti civili rappresentano una conquista di libertà per tutti. Fortunatamente le resistenze non potranno frenare una società che non aspetta permessi scritti per mutare le forme del suo amore.

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And finally, here is a picture of me found on an information site ;-) Romanian
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in Chisinau, capital of the Republic of Moldova, there is a touch of the orient
even condos in the classic socialist. The city, full of wide boulevards and
interspersed with huge parks,
is renowned for its hospitality and friendliness of its people. Spring is
blossomed in all its beauty and the main course, Stefan cel Mare
, is a constant bustle of people walking.

The small village on the edge of Europe, in early April
has filled the pages of newspapers all over the world because a 'critical mass' of
young people poured into streets to challenge the results of
election. For the third consecutive
the Communists won a majority and the opposition says there have been
fraud and that the dead have inexplicably voted. People
now we ride on a man talking to himself in a cemetery. "That'll be
doing?", They ask two friends. "A campaign rally."

Now the atmosphere is relaxed and manifestations of a month ago remain
only the renovation of the parliament and the presidency of the republic
. The seats of power I've been devastated and set on fire
, but the opposition has shown evidence that the vandalism
were organized by government and intelligence agencies to discredit the movement
that otherwise could be spread to
wildfire. The corridors of power have trembled and because it is under
the eyes of all: poverty wages and high inflation, freedom 'democratic
at risk, controlled media more' or less openly
and corruption so widespread that it is now customary.
governs a clan whose skeleton consists of Vladimir Voronin and his son Oleg
. This was a communist president for two terms, and constitutional
unable to obtain a third party, has just made
appoint as President of the Parliament, Putin-style. The other
has a good slice of the business activities of the country.

Aggravating tensions, a population divided in half between Russian speakers and native speakers of Romanian
. It is still corso una rivisitazione molto
grossolana della storia del Paese per porre le basi di un ulteriore
russificazione.

Quattro ragazzi sono morti in circosanze sospette dopo gli arresti
arbirari effettuati per strada o in università dalla polizia, ma la
vita va avanti, anche perchè qui siamo alle prese con una quotidiana
lotta per la sopravvivenza. Ti chiedi come si riesca ad arrivare a
fine-mese: se per strada inizi a pensarci, la mente si arrotola su se
stessa e una vena di tristezza la pervade. Spinti da una vita senza
futuro, un quarto della popolazione è già emigrata.

Questo Paese mi ha ricordato l'Italia. Sarà per il conflitto di
interessi o la corruzione which affects every corner of social life and
that creates citizens with different status depending on income.
to be attempts to rewrite history to use the political imperatives of the moment
, or support affected the church in the system, the Communist vote
strangely here. It will pay for that day after day
inflation will erode or maybe just for the suspension of rights
during some moments of protest, I do not know.

What I do know is that the surprise in this corner of the world are
were in their twenties. Chisinau I met the guys more open and dynamic
I've ever known. Laity, informed, with a deep-rooted democratic culture
. It was not a case if the events are
games from them. If the future of a nation is seen by his sons,
the Republic of Moldova is certainly in good hands.

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The double death of the Romanian culture

Sometimes, walking through the grasslands to block, close my eyes and try to imagine the city before the dictatorship. I am assailed by the sweet feeling of life flowing slowly between streets and alleys dotted with small houses of different styles, with vegetable gardens, close to the center, forming a link between town and country.

Then one day came to power Ceauşescu and its bulldozers and, like any self-respecting regime, we chose to make a clean sweep of the past. The goal was to build 'new man' socialist. Yet in words Nicolae showed concern for the collective memory of his country, saying: "We have a past of which we can be proud of." In practice, however, to build the current Parliament House, the second largest building in the world after the Pentagon, former President of Romania has about 40,000 homes razed to the ground pretty, one-sixth of the city.

Instead stretches of buildings with 10 floors, rarely of colors other than gray, which appear to poisonous mushrooms erupted after a particularly acid rain. Only block of the city's main boulevard are sometimes embellished with ornaments nouveau or baroque real neo-socialist. The historic districts survived the massacre cultural Lipscani for example, are a small part of the urban fabric, and until less than a hundred years ago were the norm.

The cultural suicide has hit the country far and wide. The plans, fortunately thwarted by the collapse of the wall were to halve by 2000 the number of villages. Before 89 to 29 cities was changed face completely, while other's work 'restyling' and never started corporating completed.

At Giurgiu, a small town on the banks of the Danube the border with Bulgaria, the center has saved only one tower. When I asked what she looked like the city in the past, some peers I could respond. Giurgiu now looks like a sad maze of gray square 4-story buildings, which stretch all the perimeter of the city.

Obviously I am not been spared the houses of worship. One example to grasp the magnitude of the charge paranoid: the Monastery of Prince Mihai was moved nearly 300 meters, to hide it from view.

Such a systematic attempt to demolish centuries of culture creates more confusion and modernity, in its corniness, quickly took root on a cultural terrain devastated. A few rules by capitalism and easy profits for the usual shady characters, is completing the work begun half a century ago.

In Romania it was necessary that everything changes so that everything remained as it was. The urban landscape has not had time to cicattrizzare the wounds of a mad Soviet utopia, that the bulldozers were already at work to raise other bloc, made in haste and without regard to quality, as misplaced and hypocritical in their claim to elegance that flows kitsch.

The pillars of the new life of the Romanian cities have become shopping malls. Unirii Square, downtown della Bucarest di Ceauşescu, dove uno shopping mall ha preso il posto degli ex-magazzini di stato perennemente vuoti, gli enormi cartelloni pubblicitari disorientano. Come recita un adesivo comparso in metropolitana dopo il primo maggio: “i comunisti di ieri, capitalisti di oggi”.

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La notizia l'ho appresa dagli schermi televisivi di una stazione della metropolitana: un consorzio di comuni del pisano ha deciso di dare un bonus in denaro ai Rom che scelgano di tornare in Romania. Che vita li attende a queste latitudini?

The common sentiment is that of a cohabitation malsopportata. Speaking of the problems of integration between Italian and Romanian, the answer that I'm usually give is "not our fault if we live in one state," referring of course to the Roma, which is downloaded on the responsibility of the sad episodes of the news. The same thing he told me even a public radio journalist Rom ania Actualitaţi. Weak argument, and that hides tensions.

' Tigani' (a term commonly used for the Roma, and we should not have lived to Bucharest to see that it contains within itself a hint of contempt) and 'gagii' (for the Roma the white man, a brand name that a non-membership) are in Bucharest parallel universes that you touch and cross each day without ever melting.

What are the Roma, where they live and under what conditions?

live on the margins, in the gray area between legality and illegality. A couple of times, past the homes of Roma families, I felt something to ask, I probably have offered the services of a prostitute. A time for artisans, the advent of machines has ripped the ground from under their feet. Now are used in companies that deal with street cleaning, recycling metals are small traders. However, According to data from a few years ago, the majority live in poverty. It's impossible not to notice: the streets, little tradition and a lot of misery.

seems strange, but many Roma live in beautiful houses in the historic center of the capital buildings in the interwar period, when Bucharest was the 'Little Paris'. Often dilapidated houses for the same neglect of the owners. I saw one with no windows where - I have told social workers - a family that lives last winter had only enough clothes for one child, while others stayed at home waiting for their turn to come to school. One morning, some children with whom I work have asked me if I had a shower at home, including them, according to the custom living in tents, do not have. Children and adolescents aged 9 to 18 years in one class, to retrieve lost years of study in real life stories.

According to an article published last April 29 G Andulo the newspaper, which reported the results of a survey of the EU, 10% of the Romanian Roma are illiterate. Although, according to the survey, there are less discriminated against than in the other countries surveyed (all of the former Soviet bloc plus Greece).

Thanks also to pressure from Brussels, the Romanian Government, since 2001, has launched a series of anti-discrimination laws and is committed to implement 'affirmative action'. In education, for example, abolishing the separate classes and reserving a number of places in public universities.

The life of the Roma seems a vicious circle that runs fast forward a little, in a vortex in which it is difficult to distinguish the wrongs of the former and the arguments of others. Vista from Bucharest, the road to a more organic living is all uphill.

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Crossing the threshold of an s CHOOL Giurgiu, gray city 'at border with Bulgaria, where the bloc, the buildings style socialism, seem sprung poisonous mushrooms after a rainy night, I've been struck by the smell of incense.

Great, used to the stench of neglect of the Italian schools.

And then, as in all Romanian schools, children's drawings on display in the lobby on bulletin boards. I like the Romanian schools, seem to me outdoors. At least this is 'the first impression, which alternates with the feeling of reality in an institution' hierarchical and oppressive. The two opposing thoughts on Romanian schools, openness and modernity 'vs. rigidity' and hierarch hia, live in me without any particular conflict.

Yesterday I was in Giurgiu to hold a direct course to children and adolescents on safe surfing on the Internet. Organized by Salvati Copiii, the project is called Safer Internet Plus .

Ordianti in their uniforms, these kids have made me tenderly. As the teacher asked them something specific like Swiss watches rose his hand and swung the palm to draw the attention of the teacher that each student chose a different time. I traveled with the imagination and son arrived in China or North Korea. I have compared the scene I was going through the image, never experienced in person, but recently read in a novel by Terzani, a society of 'hierarchical and authoritarian. But and 'was an impression.

Sara 'genuine interest shown by the children or conformity?

In this regard, in my mind the words of a friend who told me that here in Romania often volunteer because the boys 'and' a point in their favor at the time to find a job. "It has too many graduates and employers also look at this" - Ovidiu. And whatever of 'striking the amount' of young people who engage in activities see 'volunteers, to me, who grew up in Italy, civilization' of Catholic volunteers, puzz to always unresolved inner conflicts.

Quite the opposite incense atrium of the school di Giurgiu.