by Craig Turp
January 27, 2009
Media
After yesterday’s anniversary of the birth of Nicolae Ceausescu, given – as usual – much attention in print, online and on television, today’s rather more important memorial has so far passed unnoticed in the local press. Today folks, is Holocaust Memorial Day, though here in Romania they are hoping the whole thing will go away [...]
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by Craig Turp
January 26, 2009
Bucharest
Today would have been the 91st birthday of Nicolae Ceausescu, still the first name that springs to most people’s minds when Romania is mentioned abroad. This year of course will also mark the 20th anniversary of the Romanian Revolution of 1989. To celebrate, struggling newspaper (well, they’re all struggling) Jurnalul National is publishing a four [...]
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