Stefan Augustin Doinas
REVOLUTION 30: 23 - 31 December 1989 events in Bucharest and in other Romanian cities
Romania was the only country facing wide spread violence during the 1989 revolutions; officially, 1,104 people died and 3,300 were injured. Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship, believed to be the most brutal and repressive in Eastern Europe, was without doubt one of the main reasons for such a tragic end - as the work ''The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.
Writer Varujan Vosganian: Politics will recover only through culture
Writer Varujan Vosganian said on Sunday at Bookfest that he remains convinced that politics will recover only through culture, although he thinks that believing that one can do politics through culture is a big mistake.