The journalist and writer Sergio Canciani, a well-known face of Rai for having followed the war in the former Yugoslavia for Tg2 as a correspondent and for having been a Rai correspondent from Moscow for thirteen years, died.
Having grown professionally in the regional editorial office of Rai Fvg, Canciani has written numerous essays.
He was born in Trieste in 1946.
Canciani died in his home in Trieste.
Joining Rai Fvg, first in the Slovenian and then in the Italian editorial office, he recounted the funeral of Tito, the fall of Ceausescu in Romania, the war in the former Yugoslavia, the siege of Sarajevo, the evolution of the conflict in the Balkans.
His services for Tg1, Tg2 and Tg3 are countless.
At the end of the 1990s he became a RAI correspondent from Moscow;
he remained in Russia until 2011, from Yeltsin to Putin's arrival.
His two books are almost prophetic: "Roulette Russia" on the defeat of the former Soviet empire, and then "Putin and neo-tsarism. From the collapse of the USSR to the conquest of Crimea".
He was among the first to understand and talk about Putin's politics in Ukraine.
