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Bucharest In Your Pocket 75

by Craig Turp February 3, 2012 Bucharest

 Bucharest In Your Pocket issue 75 is done and dusted and at the printer. Here is the cover: Features this issue include a look back at the Bucharest earthquake of 1977, books about Romania in English (including some reviews first published here, as well as a cracking new sketch of Paul D. Quinlan’s Carol: The [...]

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Battle of the Mici: La Cocosatul vs La Gil

by Craig Turp February 2, 2012 Bucharest

 It was almost two years ago now that we asked the question: Where can you find the best mici in Bucharest?. The response was almost unanimous: La Cocosatul. Now, as those of you who follow mentions of Romania in the foreign press might well know, one of the owners of La Cocosatul (the name means [...]

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Bucharest’s Tallest Buildings (2)

by Craig Turp January 26, 2012 Bucharest

 Remember this post from last year about Bucharest’s tallest buildings? Well, we decided to develop the idea and write a feature on the tallest buildings in Bucharest for the next edition of Bucharest In Your Pocket. We will post a link to the feature here when it is completed. Anyway, having researched the city’s tallest [...]

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What does a responsible city guide do about these protests?

by Craig Turp January 21, 2012 Bucharest

  Here’s a problem we have never faced before: What does a responsible city guide do about these protests (a couple of which have ended violently) currently taking place every evening in Bucharest? We have a deadline approaching ahead of the publication of the February – March issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket, and are [...]

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Bucharest on Bucharest

by Craig Turp January 20, 2012 Bucharest

 Romania’s National School of Administration and Political Science (SNSPA) last year carried out an in-depth study to find out what the people of Bucharest thought about the place in which they live. While the study was published in May last year, its existence – and its findings – have only just become made known to [...]

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More in English on the Bucharest protests

by Craig Turp January 19, 2012 Bucharest

 First off, try this piece from the AP for size, which looks at the situation in Romania in a wider, Eastern European context. This piece offers some background on the man whose resignation was the catalyst for the protests, Raed Arafat. Then there is this from the BBC, written by an old friend, Sorin Ionita, [...]

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Eastern Approaches on the Bucharest rioting

by Craig Turp January 16, 2012 Bucharest

 UPDATE: As of Tuesday morning, this is now probably the most balanced English-language piece on the protests. Read it online at The Grauniad. — The Economist‘s always excellent Eastern Approaches blog has just published probably the best English-language summary of events so far (although the Battle of Bucharest headline is pushing it a little). Read [...]

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