Ion Iliescu

Romania’s Presidential Election 2009 (Round 2)

by Craig Turp December 4, 2009 Bucharest

 We try and keep well away from politics here at Bucharest Life. (That’s a lie! – Ed) Well, almost. But given the fact that we live in Bucharest, capital of Romania, and that come Sunday Romanians will be voting in the second and (probably) final round of the country’s presidential election, we could not help [...]

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June 13-15, 1990

by Craig Turp June 13, 2009 Bucharest

  Still Ion lliescu walks the streets a free man. Still he justifies calling in the miners to put down what should have been Romania’s real revolution. And still many people in Bucharest think he did the right thing: indeed, the worst thing about this film (an excerpt from Speranta by Sorin Iliesiu) are the [...]

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