Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 iulie 1883 – 28 aprilie 1945) a fost un politician și jurnalist italian care a fondat și a condus Partidul Național Fascist. A fost prim-ministru al Italiei de la Marșul asupra Romei din 1922 până la depunerea sa în 1943 și „Duce” al fascismului italian de la înființarea Fascesului de luptă italian în 1919 până la executarea sa în 1945 de către partizanii italieni. Ca dictator al Italiei și principal fondator al fascismului, Mussolini a inspirat și susținut răspândirea internațională a mișcărilor fasciste în perioada interbelică. Mussolini a fost inițial un politician socialist și un…
Author: Giorgio Comai
Giorgio Comai
Giorgio Comai - Researcher and data cruncher. PhD at Dublin City University, MA in East European Studies and degree in Political Science from the University of Bologna. He is an expert on post-Soviet affairs, with research focusing in particular on de facto states and on different approaches for the bulk extraction and analysis of textual contents form the web in this context. He is the author of a text-mining package for the R programming language. He is member of the board of directors of Asiac, Italy’s academic association for the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Exchange student at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, Russia; he has been visiting regularly Russia and other post-Soviet countries since 2000. He speaks fluently Russian and Romanian. He tweets at @giocomai.
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Romanian New Wave keeps receiving international accolades at film festivals across Europe, yet it attracts relatively little public in its home country. A data-driven analysis. As I approached the Cinema Republica in downtown Iași, it became apparent that it had seen better days. Unconcerned, I decided to go ahead with my plans to watch a Romanian film that came out just a few weeks earlier: Rocker , directed by Marian Crișan. Crișan had won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for best short film in 2008, and in 2011 won Best Romanian film at the Transylvania Film Festival…