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Romania’s anti-Gypsy hackers strike again

by Craig Turp April 20, 2010 Media

 According to Romanian tabloid Libertatea, the same hackers responsible for the attack last week on the Daily Telegraph’s website have struck again, this time at the French daily Le Monde. The attack is in response to a French comedian making a rather bad-taste joke about Romanians on national French TV. The hackers are, once again, [...]

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Copied from Wikipedia

by Craig Turp March 21, 2010 Media

 Apparently, an Amazon.com ‘user review’ of a guidebook we wrote a few years ago claims that parts of the book were ‘lifted from Wikipedia.’ Really? Knowing full well that they were not (we have the original words – and they were original, all god-knows-how-many thousands of them – on a hard drive somewhere), we wondered [...]

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Art world swoons over Romania’s homeless genius

by Craig Turp February 28, 2010 Media

 It all looks like a load of rubbish to us, but then we never understood contemporary art. Sticking bits of paper on to other bits of paper hardly requires any talent. (So it is probably no wonder that the ‘no talent required’ part of the art world has gone loopy over this fellow). Still, good [...]

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Dupa Revoluţiei (After the Revolution)

by Craig Turp February 22, 2010 Bucharest

  A week or two ago we finally found the time to sit and watch Dupa Revolutiei, a film by Laurentiu Calciu that captures the mood on Bucharest’s streets in the immediate aftermath of 1989′s revolution. The film very loosely tells the story of the first six months of 1990, from the announcement on February [...]

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Lateral Thinking

by Craig Turp February 8, 2010 Bucharest

 Romania specialises in many things; hairdressers, stray dogs and good, cheap, reliable motor cars are just three things that immediately spring to mind. Another niche Romania has made its own is in broadcasting; namely, The Television Sports Channel That Shows No Sport Of Any Kind niche. Instead of sport, which of course costs money, these [...]

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Romania & Moldova by a man who knows

by Craig Turp January 28, 2010 Bucharest

 The author (or one of them, at least) of the Romania & Moldova edition of Lonely Planet, Leif Pettersen (a regular contributor to Bucharest Life, too), yesterday relaunched his rather good travel guide to the two countries, which contains bags of stuff he couldn’t fit in the book. Do take a look when you get [...]

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Hagi, The Guardian & Pisspoor Journalism

by Craig Turp January 23, 2010 Bucharest

  As we understand things, times are tough at Realitatea, Romania’s ‘top’ TV news channel: reports that the media firm’s bank accounts were blocked for non-payment of taxes certainly suggest as much. That’s none of our business. Pointing out crap journalism is something we consider our business, however, especially if it involves a little iconclasm. [...]

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