Thursday, June 11, 2009

Team from town with more stray dogs than people wins Romanian championship

by Craig Turp June 11, 2009 Sport

  I was wrong. Back in January I said Unirea Urziceni would not be allowed to win the Romanian league title this year. I was fortunately very wrong. Urziceni, an awful town of 17,000 people, 66,227 stray dogs and no supermarket a short drive north east of Bucharest, can now boast to be the home of [...]

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Elena is Traian Basescu’s revenge

by Craig Turp June 11, 2009 Romanian Politics

  Minutes after two exit polls had shown Elena Basescu (Eba) to have comfortably reached the three per cent mark she needed to win a seat in the European parliament in Sunday’s European elections, this independent girl – who had ostentatiously left the PD-L some months before (after those in the PD-L who still have [...]

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