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2012, October 15 (Rome) - Prize Italy Human Rights "Global and Human Civilization"

In May 2009, Daniel Biacchessi writes the story of Antonio Russo in his book Passione reporter.

2004- was released in cinemas Chechnya, a film about the history of the war reporter, by Leonardo Giuliano with Gianmarco Tognazzi in the role of Antonio Russo distributed by Stazione Marittima Spa and supported by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture (Ministry of Culture)

2003- was released in cinemas L'inquilino di via Nikoladze by the director Massimo Guglielmi (UNESCO Prize 2005).

In an interview the 29 November 2002 by Patrizia Notarnicola to Laura Boldrini, the ACNUR spokesman, is remembered Antonio Russo

2001, April 11 - XXVI ° Journalism Prize Saint-Vincent organized by the friends of the house of game of Saint-Vincent with the High Patronage of the President of the Republic.

Antonio Russo died in the night between 15 and 16 October 2000 in Georgia, where he was sent as a Radical Radio to document the war in Chechnya. The Farnesina announced the discovery of his body was found on the edge of a country road, near the village of Udzharma, at 25 km from Tbilisi (Georgia), tortured and bruised, with techniques related to military specialist departments. The element is significant, because this road there is a Russian base of Vasiani. His apartment had been searched and looted; Russo's laptop computer, mobile telephone, video camera, and three videotapes were missing. The circumstances of death were never clarified, unconfirmed bring back the incident to the government of Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The autopsy reveals that the envoy Radical Radio was killed by blows to the chest that caused fatal internal injuries. The Commissioner Nugzar Khambashidze, in charge of the investigation, he initially claimed to be able to exclude each track policy.

The name of Antonio Russo appears in Arlington, at the Museum of Press of Washington, etched into the stone of the Martyrs, together with that of 25 other journalists disappeared in 2000.

Russo was also sent Radical Radio in Kosovo, where he remained - only Western journalist in the region during the NATO bombing - up to 31 March 1999 to document the ethnic cleansing against Albanians Kosovars. During those weeks he also collaborated with other Italian media and international agencies.

1999, 10 October (Mantua) - "Prize Andrea Barbato: Ethics of objectivity" III° Edition

1999, 28 May (Sarteano) - VII° Journalist Award Sarteano "Clean Pens".

1999 - XX° Ischia International Journalism Prize

Antonio Russo was a free-lance, used to live firsthand the hottest events. Born in 1961 in Chieti, (Abruzzo) is taken from an orphanage in about 6 years. Leave in the 80s the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Pisa to register, in '86, at the Faculty of Philosophy of "La Sapienza" of Rome. Always in '86 he founded with a group of students from the magazine "Philosophema", which he devotes much of his intellectual commitment.

Antonio Russo (Francavilla al Mare, June 3, 1960 – Tbilisi, October 16, 2000) ex Vice-President of the International Press Free lance (FLIP), was an Italian journalist who was murdered while covering the Second Chechen War.