For several years, he wrote a regular column on "Kompania", a Russian weekly magazine for business circles. He wrote several books, ranging from history to news and reportages about the Soviet Union and Russia. His first book, though, harks back to his first months as a journalist in Italy. It is an accurate reconstruction of the events describing the failed attempt to rescue the hostages from the American embassy in Tehran, "Operazione Teheran" ("Operation Tehran", 1980). Afterwards, from Moscow, he wrote "L’URSS che cambia" ("The Changing USSR", 1987) together with Roy Medvedev, at the time a Russian political dissident. In 1990, it was published – in the form of a dialogue with Medvedev – "La rivoluzione di Gorbaciov", edited in the US with the title "Time of Change".