Luna De Bartolo is a freelance correspondent currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She reports on the South Caucasus and Central Asia for La Repubblica and contributes to other media outlets, including L’Espresso and Radiotelevisione svizzera (RSI). She holds a degree in Humanities from Sapienza University of Rome and a master’s in Journalism from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She is fluent in Russian and is currently learning Georgian.