April 2009

Bucharest Marathon 2009

Like last year, Bucharest will host a full marathon in October. Unlike last year, the organisers have this time around wisely decided to tell people about it well in advance. A whopping 193 days in advance in fact, meaning that people will have time to train properly for the event. The organisers said at yesterday’s [...]

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Elena Basescu turns Orange in new sponsorship deal

by Craig Turp April 7, 2009 Romania

Not content with the 6,900 lei per month she gets from lighting company Luxten for doing sod all beyond (in her own words) “introducing some data into a computer for four hours a day” or the cash she will be chunking when she becomes a Euro MP next month, Elena Basescu, daughter of president Traian [...]

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Pointless complications courtesy of Romtelecom

by Craig Turp April 7, 2009 Romania

Step 1. Throw on fire before proceeding. Romtelecom’s internet service, ClickNet, is brilliant. It is fast, reliable (it never, ever goes down), is incredibly cheap and is easy to install. At least it should be. So happy were we with the service that we signed up for another three years last week, and got [...]

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The Masons keep Becali in pokey

by Craig Turp April 7, 2009 Romania

Gigi Becali appealed against his arrest yesterday, and lost. He will remain in clink until his arrest warrant expires. Why? See below; a nun come to support the great man gives an explanation: Translation: The masons wanted him to join them. But because he is a man of God and his mother too is very [...]

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A profit tax on losses

by Craig Turp April 6, 2009 Romania

Romania: Because you couldn’t make it up. As of May 1st, all small companies registered in Romania will have to pay a minimum amount of tax each quarter, regardless of whether they have made a profit or not. The appaling immorality of such a tax not withstanding (why should small business people pay a tax [...]

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Becali behind bars

by Craig Turp April 3, 2009 Romania

Where did it all go wrong? Who would have believed it? Gigi Becali – would-be politician, owner of Steaua Bucharest – behind bars. Arrested yesterday on some rather nasty charges of privation of liberty (in January, allegedly, Becali’s car was stolen. He then allegedly took the law into his own hands and dished out [...]

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It’s not Piturca’s fault Romania are hopeless

by Craig Turp April 2, 2009 Media

So Romania’s national football team lost last night, again. This time in Austria, 2-1. This follows Saturday night’s defeat against Serbia. Qualification for next year’s World Cup is now impossible. This morning Bucharest is united for once in its opinions: Victor Piturca, the Romanian coach (who, apropos, though in his mid-50s looks strangely young. Does [...]

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