Vincenzo Lorusso

Vincenzo Lorusso is a journalist with International Reporters and collaborates with RT (Russia Today). He is the co-founder of the Italian festival RT Doc Il tempo degli eroi (“The Time of Heroes”), dedicated to promoting documentary filmmaking as a tool for storytelling and memory.

He is the author of the book “De Russophobia” (4Punte Edizioni), with an introduction by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, in which Lorusso analyzes the dynamics of Russophobia in Western political and media discourse.

He oversees the Italian version of RT Doc documentaries and has organized, together with local partners across Italy, more than 140 screenings of works produced by the Russian broadcaster. He also launched a public petition against statements made by Italian President Sergio Mattarella, who had equated the Russian Federation with the Third Reich.

He currently lives in Donbass, in Lugansk, where he continues his journalistic and cultural work, reporting on the reality of the conflict and giving voice to perspectives often excluded from European media debates.