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• Dracula’s Castle (Bran Castle) - The Terrace

  Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

  The road to the Rucăr Pass seen from the castle terrace.
  Film made by Dan Alexoae

• Sunrise at Neptun, Black Sea Coast, Romania

  Friday, September 5th, 2008

  Sunrise at Neptun, Black Sea Coast, Romania (1/3)
  Sunrise at Neptun, Black Sea Coast, Romania (2/3)
  Sunrise at Neptun, Black Sea Coast, Romania (3/3)
  Neptun, Black Sea Coast, Romania. An usual morning, waiting for the sunrise.
  Film made by Dan Alexoae

• Dracula’s Castle (Bran Castle) - The Yard

  Thursday, September 4th, 2008

  The decorative fountain, the secret passage, the habits of the Queen Maria, the chapel.
  Film made by Dan Alexoae

• Dâmbovicioara Cave

  Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

  Dambovicioara zone is characterized by a varied and spectacular Karsts relief. River flowing down from Fagaras, Piatra Craiului and Leaota Mountains have digged in the limestone fro here narrow and deep valleys, developing on a relatively restraint area the biggest gorges complex from our country. Many erosion forms are here, underground and on the [...]

• Dracula’s Castle (Bran Castle) - The Entrance

  Monday, September 1st, 2008

  Bran Castle (German: Törzburg; Hungarian: Törcsvár), situated near Bran and in the immediate vicinity of BraÅŸov, is a national monument and landmark in Romania. The fortress is situated on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia, on Highway 73. Commonly known as “Dracula’s Castle”, it is marketed as the home of the titular character in [...]

• Italy: Rome starts today fingerprinting the gypsies

  Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

  This is the first time after the World War II when a government initiate an ID action based on racial criteria. During the next 48 hours, Rome’s authorities will fingerprint about 10,000 gypsies, helped by the Italian Red Cross.
  In accordance with ANSA agency, about one hundred employees of the Red Cross [...]

• Today, important action of the Romanian police against phishing

  Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

  Today in the morning, very early, the Romanian police (DIICOT - the department for organized crime), in cooperation with FBI, started a very wide action against the identity thieves, especially in five counties known as the main headquarters of the thieves: Vâlcea, Teleorman, Sibiu, Hunedoara, and Bucharest.
  Phishing is a criminally fraudulent [...]

• NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania

  Sunday, February 24th, 2008

  The NATO summit will take place in Bucharest, Romania, during the April 2-4, in order for Allied leaders to carry forward decisions taken at the Riga Summit and review the evolution of NATO’s main commitments, which are all mutually reinforcing.
  During the summit, heads of state and government will assess the [...]

• Romanian traditions: MărÅ£iÅŸor

  Sunday, February 24th, 2008

  MărÅ£iÅŸor is one of the best Romanian traditions, celebrated in the beginning of the Spring, on March 1st. The tradition’s name is the diminutive of March (in Romanian: Martie). The men offer to the women a talisman object also called MărÅ£iÅŸor, consisting of a jewel or a small decoration like [...]

• Kosovo, a solution for all the European countries with ethnic minorities

  Monday, February 18th, 2008

  In a public declaration right after the proclamation of the independence of Kosovo, the leader of the Hungarian party in Romania (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania), Marko Bela, said that Kosovo is a precedent, and a solution for all the European countries that have ethnic problems.
  Marko Bela saluted Kosovo’s independence and [...]

• Kosovo, the Pandora’s box

  Saturday, February 16th, 2008

  France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, the states of the old USSR… almost all the European countries have provinces in the same situation with the Serbian province Kosovo. The European Union would be a solution. But the independence of the provinces is a solution too.
  I think that the Kosovo’s independence is [...]

• Sarkozy in Romania: comparison with Basescu

  Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

  Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Romania for one day, on February 4th, to launch a strategic partnership with Romania, the first such partnership with a Central and East European country.
  The partnership will include a broad range of domain, but it will focus on defense and security.
  “The goal of the visit is to [...]

• Romanian gamers complain against Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo WII

  Friday, February 1st, 2008

  The Romanian gaming community is complaining against the discrimination of the manufacturers of the game consoles Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo WII that, although Romania is member of the European Union, the Romanian gamers do not benefit by the full online services and support for which they paid. [...]

• Daimler will invest in a new plant in Romania

  Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

  Daimler AG intends to open a new automobile plant in Romania or Poland (most probable in Romania), where it will be manufactured the class A and B models, beginning with 2011.
  One of the Mercedes manager confirmed that these two possibilities are taken into consideration and discussed.
  Daimler AG (ex DaimlerChrysler AG) [...]

• Romanian football under penal investigation

  Thursday, January 17th, 2008

  The public prosecutors of the National Department for Anticorruption started the penal investigation for some of the most representative persons in the Romanian football:

  Ioan Becali, impresario
  Victor Becali, impresario
  Gheorghe Copos, president and owner of the football club Rapid Bucharest
  Sica Puscoci, attorney
  Mihai Stoica, ex manager of the football club Otelul Galati
  Cristian Borcea, executive president [...]

• Penal investigation for 8 Romanian ministers

  Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

  In accordance with the Press Release of the Romanian President, he signed today the approval to start the legal procedures for the penal investigation for eight actual and ex ministers of the Romanian Government.
  The request was made by the National Department of Anticorruption.
  The eight ministers are the following:

  Adrian Năstase, ex Prime Minister [...]

• Big investment in the Black Sea area (Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine)

  Sunday, January 13th, 2008

  10 billions Euros will be invest by Voest Alpine (voestalpine AG), Austria, in eight areas at the Black Sea, in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine, in order to build a siderurgical aggregated group of plants with 10,000 employees, build on 1,000 ha of land.

  Petru Ianc, the chief of the General Department for Industrial [...]

• Two neighbors that quarrel on their poverty: Romania and Bulgaria

  Saturday, January 5th, 2008

  Now I am living at the border with Serbia, but in my childhood I was living at the border with Bulgaria. It is true, during the communist era there was not so much visits of the Romanians in Bulgaria or Bulgarians in Romania. Now, a lot of Romanian pass on their [...]

• Two Romanian women killed in Italy

  Saturday, January 5th, 2008

  Breaking news:

  Two Romanian women, 21 and 22 years old, was killed with brutality in a hotel in Rome. Their dead bodies was found at the midnight. They have the necks cut The police started to investigate the crime. (Realitatea TV)
  As in many other previous crimes, I can bet that the police will [...]

• Hard winter in Romania

  Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

  I wanted to have a house, and now I have it. But it seems that a house is not the same thing with an apartment. Previous (and first) winter living in the house was easier, I saw no snow all the season. But now, I have to clean tons of snow to [...]