Vlad

Research reveals the medical motive behind Vlad the Impaler’s tears of blood

"Will I be able to shoot my comrades?" was the question that tormented Vlad during the armed rebellion of his former comrades on June 24.
A convoy of rebel mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin advanced toward Moscow and Russia seemed on the brink of civil war. Vlad feared that he would be sent to defend the capital against his former comrades.

Romania will take over on Thursday the command of NATO's SNMCMG - 2 Standing Mine Countermeasures Group 2, the Romanian Chief of Navy Defence Staff reported in a statement released on Monday. The SNMCMG-2 command, provided by Captain Commodore Valentin-Catalin Vlad, will be exercised, for six months from the Romanian Navy's Vice Amiral Constantin Balescu (PM-274) mine sweeper command ship.

Moldova's new pro-Russian President, Igor Dodon, signed a decree on Tuesday stripping former Romanian President Traian Basescu of his Moldovan citizenship. Dodon made the announcement on his Facebook account.

For the new Socialist head of state, who was inaugurated on December 23, the move was the fulfillment of one of the promises he made during his electoral campaign.