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12 juillet 2010

The love of Bucharest

Dear Everyone, How good it is to know that there are some nice things happening in and concerning Roumania instead of the sad, depressing and intolerable things that happen on a day to day level. What am I talking about? Blogs! Blogs have my attention...

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12 mai 2010

cal Victoriei, nr 9

Just received: In aceste zile se desfasoara un act de distrugere fara precedent la acest obiectiv de Patrimoniu National, de importanta exceptionala - categoria A.Este exemplar pt coruptia actuala generalizata, institutiile statului si directiile lor...

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24 avril 2010

Kapitalism: Our Improved Formula

From Kathimerini (supplement of IHT in Greece and Cyprus) Ceausescu ‘resurrected’ in film AFP Portraits of Romanians, businessmen George Becali, George Copos, OTV television owner Dan Diaconescu and Dinu Patriciu are seen on TV screens forming part of...

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9 mars 2010

Road signs for the plastered

Dear All, No matter what happens in the country of my heart, whether it be horrendous blizzards, increasing unemployment, crashing recession, pathetic arguments between politicians, mayors being thrown behind bars and other such goings on that would make...

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1 janvier 2010

News on Ion B

Dear Everybody, The story of Ion B (see this article from Hotnews) has really got my attention. Was the video shown on HBO portraying a helping hand or the real and dispicable profitting of an old man's artwork to benefit an art gallery owner? Well, it...

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18 décembre 2009

20 Years On...

Does anyone know the identity of the guy in the glasses and hat, seemingly in charge of this very organised preparation for what is to come? He tells the crowd what to say and conducts their chanting. We know that it takes place in the military barracks...

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30 août 2010

Florentina Carstea's release denied

The news today is that Simona Parvu's request for Florentina Carstea's release from custody has been denied. I do not understand it, cannot make sense of it...while Dima roams around free as a bird on grounds of health and age, this woman remains behind...

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19 août 2010

Thursday: the Giulesti enquiry continues

I awoke this morning to the tragic news of a fifth baby victim. The father, Mr Dragomirescu, told Romania Libera that he had been informed in error yesterday that his baby had died. Today, however, he and his wife did indeed lose their child due to massive...

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18 août 2010

Update on Giulesti Maternity Hospital tragedy

Update on Giulesti Maternity Hospital from Alison Mutler at Associated Press. The "flight of the angels" ceremony in front of the hospital today, I think, has been my undoing...: By ALISON MUTLERAssociated Press Writer08-18-2010 18:18 BUCHAREST, Romania...

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31 juillet 2010

Jail for trafficking couple

They got a two and a half year sentence for trafficking, begging, stealing, benefit fraud, money laundering, child cruelty and neglect. Two and a half years!! It should have been far more - they will be out way sooner with yet more entrepreneurial ideas...

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25 juillet 2010

Digging up the past

Not quite sure what is going on with this whole exhumation story...on the one hand, we are told (can't remember where I read it, but read it I did) that the bodies of the Ceausescus had been thrown into graves ontaining nothing but sawdust. And today...

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19 juillet 2010

Another anniversary...

From History Today Srebrenica Massacre Remembered by Kathryn Hadley, Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, on July 11th, 1995, when the town was attacked by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladic. It is...

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25 juin 2010

Voronet and its sister sanctuaries

from New York Times Deep in the Carpathians, Painted Parables By PETER WORTSMAN WHEN the Moldavian prince Stephen the Great won his first decisive victory against the Turks five and a quarter centuries ago, he decided to mark the occasion with a grand...

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12 mai 2010

Rostul

Received this afternoon. Please read it as I wipe my eyes. I didn't understand every word - but no need. The message is clear and the images blatent. Beautifully written and tragic. Tragic and true. Thank you for sending it on, iubita mea xox : ROSTUL...

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24 avril 2010

reaction to the "roumanian salute"

I don't really know what to say. I just read this in the Bucharest Herald - the Roumanian bloggers response to the Roumanian Salute which, as someone said on a comment here on Sarah In Romania is 'minable'. Yes, it is. Truly 'minable'. I expected a response...

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20 avril 2010

Romania insulted on France 2

Dear Everyone, Truely outrageous and a result of ignorance... One thing in addition - the majority of the French population have absolutely no idea that Roumanian culture has anything to do with their's...sad but true. Brancusi - who? Ionescu - who's...

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19 avril 2010

Photography project in Lipscani

I'd like to add to this article from Nine O'Clock that the historical centre of Bucharest is not only 'degrading', it is being actively and purposefully destroyed by people like Stefan Damien and his cronies whose faith lies in money rather than morality,...

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19 avril 2010

The Godfather...

The below article taken from Nine O'Clock - and what can I say? One couldn't possibly have chosen a more charming, trust-worthy godfather...bravo! Petre Roman christens his son Former Prime Minister Petre Roman had his son baptised on Saturday at Bucharest’s...

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15 avril 2010

Statues moved (temporarily) as carpark work begins...

This piece of news from Nine O'Clock... Oprescu to move statues from University area 14.04.10 | by: Vlad Alexandrescu | in: homenews Only one more approval is needed to start working on the University parking, mayor of the Capital, Sorin Oprescu, announced...

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12 avril 2010

Strength in poetry...

Please, please if you do nothing else this evening, click on THIS LINK and listen to the very special, very wonderful Ana Blandiana. How I wish I could just hug her. She exudes such warmth, such depth. Here, she speaks of the half hour that showed her...

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29 mars 2010

Eviction of child traffic victims from Bucharest centre

This is disgraceful... From Nine O'Clock: Blunt indifference: Child traffic victims evicted from centre 26.03.10 | by: Nine oClock | in: homenews Romania’s only centre for assisting child victims of trafficking is to be emptied today, although the court...

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18 mars 2010

London launches Roumanian films programme

This below from the ever faithful and well informed Nine O'Clock - and I'd just like to add my own grain of salt: that Mr Lazarescu made me sob like a Madeleine and how anyone can call it a comedy is beyond me...it's the very true to life tragedy of a...

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8 mars 2010

Marius Oprea to sue government

Dear All, Having been very underhandedly 'got rid of' and then replaced in an institute that he founded himself by the historian he knew would take his place, Marius Oprea is going to sue the Roumanian government - not to get his job back because he is...

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24 décembre 2009

The Barricade Revisited

Bucharest barricade, rebuilt 20 years after the Revolution Precisely 20 years ago, on 22 December 1989, the communist regime was overthrown. This was the day when Ceausescu ran away from Bucharest aboard a helicopter, as hundreds of thousands of Bucharesters...

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21 décembre 2009

Still beneath a cloud

I was directed to this superb blog (the photojournalism blog of the New York Times) via the Global Post this morning and fell upon a post called Romania, Still Beneath A Cloud. Please go visit and leave a comment, for it's always good to know who has...

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