Stelian Tanase

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.

Romania's parliament is expected to give a negative verdict on Wednesday on TV Romania's activity report for last year, in which case the leadership of TVR will have to quit.

Stelian Tanase, 63, director of the state-owned television company, started his job on a mission to reform the cash-strapped firm, but it now likely to have to resign long his mandate ends.

A version of Victor Eftimiu's magic poem 'Insir'te margarite' (String, pearl!) adapted and directed by actor Dan Puric premiered on Saturday evening in the Grand Hall of the National Theatre of Bucharest (TNB) after four years of renovation works on the building.

Photo credit: (c) AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Bucharest has preserved up to now the character it had in the past as a crossroads, a crossing and a passage, writer Stelian Tanase tells an interview with the AGERPRES National News Agency for the 'MY CITY, BUCHAREST' project.

Photo: (c) RADU TUTA/ AGERPRES FLOW