Francesco Brusa is a freelance journalist focused on Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey. In 2015-16 he worked as a correspondent from Moldova for Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa and he covered social, political and cultural events in the region. He collaborates with the newspaper il manifesto, the magazine Micromega and the web-magazine Meridiano13 producing news, interviews and stories. He recently authored an essay on post-independence Belarus contained in the book Bielorussia viva tra dittatura e resistenza (1994-2024), edited by Scholé.