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Adina Marincea: The Feminist movement in Romania has developed a lot in the last 10 years

Vladimir Mitev
Gender issues
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Adina Marincea is a researcher in social sciences with a doctorate in communication sciences (2014). She has more than 5 years of experience with national and European research projects within the independent think tank Median...

Ahlam Chemlali: EU institutions are rewarding authoritarian regimes over migration

Vladimir Mitev
Global affairs
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Ahlam Chemlali is from Copenhagen, Denmark, where she works as a programme manager at DIGNITY – The Danish Institute against Torture. In her work and research she has dealt with torture, migration, human rights abuses,...

Traian Băsescu has fallen victim to the forces he unleashed

On 20 September the Court of Appeals in Bucharest came out with the decision that the former Romanian president Traian Băsescu was a collaborator with the communist secret service “Securitate”. Băsescu rejects this accusation and...

Codru Vrabie: The appointment of Kövesi to chief prosecutor of the EPPO is like a flower in a butt..

Vladimir Mitev
Interviews
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Codru Vrabie is a civic activist, trainer and consultant on good governance, transparency, responsibility, and integrity in the public sector. He has contributed to many reform measures in justice and public administration. Vrabie has BAs...

The Romanian left looks for an exit from cheap labour’s trap

Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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On 10 September 2019 the main Romanian media announced that “the era of cheap labour in Poland is coming to an end.” This was a statement by the prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki himself, who promised...

Farid Ghadami: Most Iranian intellectuals are left-wing

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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Farid Ghadami is an Iranian professor of mechanical engineering as well as a prolific writer and translator. He has written fiction books, books of literary criticism, science manuals and has translated a number of English-language...

Lucian Sârbu: I am worried by the servility of Romanian politicians to the West

Vladimir Mitev
Interviews
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Lucian Sârbu graduated from university with degrees in philosophy and marketing. He has been a contributor to various cultural magazines and is one of the authors of the Romanian site "Arguments and Facts”. He has...

What does Vaptsarov sound like in Persian?

Vladimir Mitev
Art & culture
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The poetry book “Motor songs” by Nicola Vaptsarov is already available in Iran in Persian. News of the translation was announced at the Austrian Library in Ruse with its translator, Farid Ghadami, in attendance. Ghadami...

The anti-Iranian axis cracks

Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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The world media reports abundantly on the escalation of tensions in the Middle East. In the hot summer of 2019 we followed the takedown of an American drone, which Iran claimed entered its aerial space....

The murder which shook Romania – a story from Caracal

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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Romania has been in a state of shock for more than a week, after a 15-year old girl – Alexandra Măceşanu, from the centrally-located southern city of Caracal, was killed on July 25th. Alexandra had...