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Fleeing Romania During Communism, Not An Easy Job II

Hundreds, maybe thousands of Romanians tried to flee communist Romania over the border, some choosing to swim across the Danube, never to be heard from again by their relatives and friends. Kosta Jakovljevic, a retired...

Murders At The Border

Hundreds, maybe thousands of Romanians tried to flee communist Romania over the border, some choosing to swim across the Danube, never to be heard from again by their relatives and friends. Kosta Jakovljevic, a...

19 billion euros for credibility

Radu Berceanu ready to swear that the IMF will be indulgent with Romania The loan package that Romania wants to take from the global financial institutions reaches 19 billion euros, only 4 of which will be used. The...

Mugur Isărescu / We do not exclude a loan with the IMF

Romania's private debt due in 2009 reaches 24 billion euros, 17.5 billion of which will be renewed, according to a study of NBR. The remaining 6.5 billion will be paid. The Romanian government also takes into account...

Nadia Comăneci: One can achieve instant fame as an actor, or being born a princess, but to become an Olympic champion it takes a lot of work

"Say It As It Is” Series of Interviews conducted by Marius Tuca Marius Tucă: Going back to the book you wrote, you stated such simple and such true things at the same time. For instance: ”Dear...

A second Prahova

The second Prahova has not entered into the European Union. One can see a new car on its “bombarded” roads from time to time, but the people there are not too far from the era in which Geo Bogza described...

On Star-Gate In A Romanian Village

In the Horodnicul de Jos village, Suceava County, lives one of the most passionate promoters of the positive sciences in the rural areas: Dimitrie Olenici fell in love with the night skyline since his...

Lots of noise for nothing

So much noise was created because of the payment in advance of the increased pensions, from the 1st of October, which will be actually paid on the 14th, that the mind of a citizen in a civilized country cannot resist...

Crisis in the Caucasus and elections in the U.S.

What happens now in Georgia was perfectly predictable. Since the moment in which Kosovo unilaterally proclaimed its independence from Serbia, encouraged by the United States and by the majority of the European Union...

The Irish Refusal

The European dream was born out of fear of unchanging of the desperate people escaped from the tragedy of war who wanted to win the right to peace, freedom, food and dignity The European dream was born out of fear...

“A hundred years of Rotary”

Rotary is a worldwide entity of more than 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders. Some of them were or are great personalities in politics, diplomacy, business or culture like US president Jimmy...

PM Tariceanu Kept Out Fellow Liberals From Nominating The New Foreign Minister

Two hours after the top National Liberal Party leadership closed its session, Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu send his choice for the new holder of the Foreign Affairs portfolio, without having consulted...

Basescu erased all his debts

When he was the Minister of Transport, President Traian Basescu promoted an emergency decree that erased a debt of 200,000 USD plus interest from the Agricultural Bank, a loan which he obtained when he was a...

Commercial Bankers Want Romanians To Stop Making Credits In Hard Currency If Not Paid In One

The Association of Banks in Romania asked the Central Bank to issue rules that would prevent people from drafting credits in currencies other than the one they get their main income in. The...

From little Paris to great ambitions

People used to call Bucharest “little Paris”. It was saucy, its inhabitants seemed more civilized and more educated than they are today, and it didn’t look as kitschy as it does...

The political meaning of C. T. Popescu’s resignation

The reason of Cristian Tudor Popescu's resignation seems to be the difference between his beliefs and the ones of the newspaper owners as far as the commercial performances were concerned. In the middle of the...

Elodia: "Nu-mi pot imagina viaţa asta fără tine in ea"

Vara trecută, Elodia a fost in vacanţă in Italia cu soţul ei şi cu un grup de prieteni. La 26 iulie, ea scrie un mesaj de "la revedere" disperat SPP-istului. La 5 august, cănd se intoarce in ţară, ii trimite prim...

Elodia: "O să mor pănă o să treacă anul ăsta"

In mesajele pe care şi le trimit unul altuia, Elodia işi descrie stările sufleteşti, amantul - mesele pantagruelice. La 27 mai 2007, după o seară de beţie, avocata ii scrie SPP-istului: "M-au apucat toate...

Elodia: "O să mor aşa cum incepusem deja să o fac"

Elodia ii scrie amantului in după-amiaza zilei de 11 mai de la calculatorul din cabinetul de avocatură: "Aşa da, ce?? Aşa da, că am ajuns la 10 jumate acasă aseară şi că eram prea obosită ca să mai pot scrie...

4th of July

"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. "Â -words written on the Liberty BellBy the middle of the 1700s, the 13 colonies that made up part of England's empire in the New World we...