Bucharest

The third edition of the East European Comic Con (EECC), an event gathering under one banner comic book artists, vendors, actors, cosplayers, gamers and boardgame enthusiasts, has started in Bucharest's Romexpo venue on Friday, Mircea Muresan, the EECC's director, estimating an attendance of around 30,000 during the convention's three days.

Prosecutors and police officers are conducting today 75 domiciliary visits in Bucharest City and the counties of Ilfov, Timis, Calarasi, Buzau, Teleorman, Bacau, Prahova and Ialomita and enforcing 58 summons in a 3-million-euro fraud from tax evasion and money laundering.

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The feature film "Autoportretul unei fete cuminti" (Self-Portrait of Dutiful Daughter), directed by Ana Lungu, won the Best Fiction Film Award in the Crossing Europe Film Festival of Linz, Austria, informs a release of the producer remitted to AGERPRES on Tuesday.

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Romanian film "Acasa la tata" (At Dad's) directed by Andrei Cohn will be screened on May 7 as a premiere at the opening gala of the 19th edition of the European Film Festival.

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Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov on Friday told the joint press conference he had with his Romanian and Serbian counterparts that, with respect to the common infrastructure, he wished to see a motorway built to link Bucharest, Sofia and Belgrade.

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CFR Calatori (e.n. The CFR division dedicated to passenger travel) is marking the opening of the summer season 2015 by launching the Seaside Trains to link the capital city with the Romanian seaside (Black Sea shore), in two hours, without any other stops in between, reads a release of the company to AGERPRES on Thursday.

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Romania, represented by the team of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest - Harder - Better - Faster - Stronger - ranked third among the nations that participated in the RobotChallenge competition held in Vienna, after collecting two golden medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal.

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The Romanian police has purchased cutting-edge laboratory equipment for fingerprint recovery from various supports and in atypical conditions, in a Swiss-Romanian cooperation project worth 1.5 million Swiss francs, started in 2012.

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Bucharest became an associate member of the Lighting Urban Community International (LUCI); Mayor Sorin Oprescu signed the Charter of Urban Lighting on Wednesday.

LUCI VP Mary-Ann Schreurs (left) watches Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu (righ) signing the Charter on Urban Lighting
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Charge d'Affaires of the United States in Bucharest, Dean Thompson, on Wednesday rewarded in Bucharest several high school students who participated in a competition organized by the US Embassy on Earth Day, informs a press release sent to AGERPRES.

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