I was born in 1969. I left school early, but in 1995 I fell in love with Windows 95: that’s where my love for computers began. First I opened a shop, then, as a freelancer, I started managing a client base by offering IT consulting.
In 1996 I was introduced to Belarus, to set up one of the first industrial internet systems. (If you really want to discover Belarus I recommend belarusvc.com; I won’t go into detail here, but it’s worth visiting. And above all: forget what you were taught at school or told in the media.)
In 2004 I decided to move to Minsk. Building on my website Belarus.it, I left the IT company in Italy, handed over my clients to my former colleagues, and started new businesses, mainly importing from Italy. At the same time, I supported Italian families hosting children from the Chernobyl programs.
In 2016 I got married and in 2020 my daughter was born. Until then my life had been fantastic. Then came the European Union: with sanctions and blockades it effectively erased 16 years of work built by me and many others, Belarusians and foreigners. These were political issues that concerned Brussels, but that 90% of Belarusians didn’t care about at all.
Until 2022 I would have described myself like this: entrepreneur in Belarus, IT security and cryptocurrency expert, I speak Italian, English, Russian, Spanish, and French.
But in 2022 came a heart attack, two stents, and in 2023 an ischemic stroke. The EU had erased what I had built since 2004 in Belarus, and the stroke erased 53 years of life. After a recovery that allowed me to return to Italy without losing myself, I decided I had to start again.
So, leaving my wife and daughter in Minsk, I moved to Reggio Emilia, to my parents’ house. On April 22, 2025, I officially became an Italian resident again.
They always talk about “Italian excellence”: who knows. Today, as I write, September 22, 2025, exactly 5 months have passed. Maybe it’s the stroke that pushes me to insist, because a normal person wouldn’t do it. But now I can’t stop anymore: after 25 years I’ve returned to the difficulties I had left at 30, which had allowed me to live half of my life happily.
On the pages of this site I will tell everything, step by step, once I have completed the paths I have taken. The goal is that others, finding themselves in the same situation, can consciously decide whether to take this path (I met several people who were also returning) and, above all, not waste time as unfortunately happened to me.