Romania
Romania
CAPITAL: Bucharest (Bucuresti)
FLAG: The national flag, adopted in 1965, is a tricolor of blue, yellow, and red vertical stripes.
ANTHEM: Trei culori (Three Colors).
MONETARY UNIT: The...
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Romania - Ion Iliescu
Ion IliescuPresident
(pronounced "ee-AHN ee-lee-YEH-skew")
"The main arguments [in favor of economic reform] are the facts. And people should see that a...
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Romania's Cyanide Spill
Water Contamination and Political Crisis
A gold mine—jointly owned by Romania and an Australian company—dumped cyanide-tainted water into a major river in ...
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Romania
Romania is a country in southeastern Europe that is bounded on the north by Ukraine, on the east by the Republic of Moldova, on the southeast by the Black Sea, on the south by Bulgaria, on the...
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Area: 238,391 sq km (92,043 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 21,577,000Capital:
Bucharest
Chief of state:
President
Traian
Basescu
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Calin
Popescu-Tariceanu
Ro...
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BUCHAREST, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Activists urged the Romanian
government on Thursday to do more to curb discrimination against
Gypsies, in response to an apology by President Traian Basescu
for Roman...
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Romania's government on Thursday defended its decision to return "Dracula's Castle" to members of the former royal family, denying allegations that the decision was illegal.The castle, famous for i...
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Romania's president presented a report Monday denouncing the former Communist regime as "criminal and illegitimate" and guilty of committing crimes against humanity _ the country's first such offic...
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Romanian President Traian Basescu apologized Monday for calling a journalist a "stinky Gypsy" during a conversation recorded on the reporter's cell phone and broadcast on local television.Basescu w...
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Buzesti Street used to be one of the shabbiest parts of Bucharest with crumbling, Communist-era structures and one of the city's roughest markets.Now, gleaming multistory buildings have turned the ...
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Romania's Cyanide Spill
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