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The first former president of Romania to be heard as a witness
Ion Iliescu, the first head of state in Romania's history whose mandate ended following democratic elections, without him being executed or banished from the country, yesterday became the fi...
Art Basel: the El Dorado of the art world
The world's most important art fair and the annual meeting place of the international art world, Art 31 Basel takes place in Basel, Switzerland from June 21 to 26, 2000. 271 galleries from E...
The burning the treasures and the Dragaica or Sanzienele
The old legends say that during the nights of the great celebrations, the buried treasures are burning with enchanted flames. To discover the places where money is buried, people used to wat...
Connex: the future sounds good, but in the Netherlands
Romanian mobile telephony operator Mobifon-Connex might be the object of an ample financial transaction on the international market. Following this deal, the company's shareholders, both Rom...
The Polish lesson: how to privatise fast and cheap
Large-scale privatisation has always drawn public focus - and Poland was no exception. What's more, they proved to be extremely lucrative for the cash-starved budgets of post-communist count...
The warrior woman and her contemporary alternatives
"The Warrior Woman" is the title of a novel wrote by Maxine Hong Kingston, an American Writer born to a Chinese immigrant family. Girls in traditional Chinese families have two alternatives...
In the locals, people voted for persons, not for parties
PDSR (Party of Social Democracy) got the highest number of mayor mandates at a national level (32.82 percent), after the second round, but lost the position of Bucharest mayor, which was won...
The only help for the Government comes from abroad
On the very eve of the second round of local elections in Romania, the European Union, World Bank and IMF issued on Friday a powerful message of support for the Isarescu Cabinet's economic p...
The clean hands law, ten years on
Ten years after the socialist system imploded, the treatment applied to former collaborators of totalitarian regimes remains a pending issue. On the other hand, "it is never too late to find...