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The High Court of Cassation and Justice will weigh on Thursday the appeal filed by former head of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Alina Bica to her being held in preventive detention.

Historians Alexandru Zub and Gheorghe Cliveti of the A.D. Xenopol History Institute of the Romanian Academy will hold two conferences at Moldova's Academy of Sciences in Chisinau on October 21, as part of a project called 'Academic Readings,' the Mihai Eminescu Romanian Culture Institute reports.

The lower Deputies' Chamber at a plenary sitting on Monday passed a 153 to 110 vote to approve the request made by the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) to start the criminal prosecution of independent deputy Valerian Vreme, Chamber Secretary Ion Marcel Ciolacu announced.

The vote was secret, with Vreme being the only deputy to address the debates.

President Traian Basescu announced on Friday that he has approved the Justice Minister's request of initiating criminal proceedings against the five former ministers under investigation in the Microsoft corruption case.

The Romanian Border Police Day, marking 150 years of institutional existence, is celebrated in Herastrau Park on Saturday.