Romania
‘A digestive tract with a tie’
No matter how the plot of this particular election thriller ends, Romanian institutions must do better in the future
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Romania’s election chaos
Călin Georgescu is a textbook post-truth politician: a conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, climate change denier, and moon landing sceptic
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The needle through which Europe was threaded
An adventurous romantic life lent almost a Zelig-like quality to the writer, constantly drawing her towards the centre of events
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Legacy of a European dictator
The residence of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu is all yours to gawp at for 65 Romanian lei
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Edward G Robinson: The Romanian all-American personification of prohibition
The role of Rico in Little Caesar proved as career-defining for Robinson as Frankenstein’s monster was for Boris Karloff or Dracula for Bela Lugosi
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How the communists converted to rugby union
Links with British industry and French universities – through ‘rugger diplomacy’ – helped to turn Romania into a surprising hotbed of the sport
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Balancing act: How Nadia Comăneci went from perfection to defection
One night in 1989, the greatest gymnast in the world tried to escape from communist Romania
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Moving monuments:
Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu
believed that Bucharest’s churches were
in the wrong place. So he simply had
them moved
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Meet Romania’s maneliști maestro
Salem is the King of Manele – the Middle Eastern-flavoured Romanian pop music descended from Roma folk music. But, some of his material divides audiences
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Romania has been on a cyberspace conquest
The Balkan nation has emerged as an unlikely global centre of high- tech industry – and of hacking.
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MONDO EUROPE: Your chance to fly like dictator Nicolae Ceausescu
At a time when dictators and aircraft are making news, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s third-favourite plane is up for auction with a starting price of €25,000 (£21,500).