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Arrest of SNP Petrom head - a hatchet from whom to whom?
Ioan Popa, the general manager of the largest company in Romania, SNP (National Oil Company) Petrom, was unexpectedly arrested yesterday, on a five-day period, following some oil deals opera...
Warm words mark historic summit of two Koreas
The leaders of communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea, ending a 50-year stand-off, met for the first time yesterday and vowed to work together to ease Cold War strains on the divid...
Mechanical games, family hysteria and lack of money
The first good thing about Sfantul Gheorghe is that you get away from the heat of Bucharest. When you are at peace with your body, things work better, the brain included. The best thing that...
President Assad's death - end of an era
Syria's ruling party has officially nominated the son of the late President Hafez al-Assad to succeed the "great lion" who ruled the country for 30 years.The leadership of the Baath Party sa...
Lessons of a disaster
The FNI crash: the lessons - Analysis by Lucian Croitoru In a developed market economy, the bankruptcy of an investments fund the size of FNI would not have created too much panic. In a norm...
Lacryme Rerum or the madness of the state of being
Aside from the fact that it is protected from bad weather and major earthquakes, the city of Cluj, although an old University centre, recognised all over the world, is struggling to become a...
Change of locomotive for the Democrat Party
The surprise of Bucharest elections, Traian Basescu, might fire up a few surprises within his own party, taking into account his high popularity, which, in the elections on Sunday, has benef...
Andrei aerban - a portrait of the mature artist
The La MaMa E.T.C. (Experimental Theatre Club), one of the most important Off-Off-Broadway theatres, was Andrei aerban's chance to succeed in his spectacular American career. About this thea...
The dawn of Literary Bohemia
A bohemian is a person who lives a life that does not fit social standards, who prefers those places where he can have a drink and look at the world around with the eyes of imagination. He i...