Bucharest

Prosecutors with the Prosecution Office of the Bucharest Court of Appeal have ordered the start of a criminal investigation into the Romanian Lottery over unauthorised or unlicensed slot-machine gambling in 2006-2014 that involved 6,263 such machines and damage estimated at RON 463 million.

Photo credit: (c) CRISTIAN NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

A procession to mark the Entry of our Lord into Jerusalem (the Procession of Palms) is taking place in Bucharest on Saturday as of 16:00 hrs, at the same time with the parade that gathers thousands of Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem.

The Romanian Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the Russian ambassador to Bucharest, Oleg Malginov, to express its concern about his "insulting language" concerning the website Contributors.ro., which roused the ire of the diplomat after it published an article that was highly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Nearly 2,000 Catholics, including young people, children and priests from Bucharest parishes as well as nuns and monks on Sunday marched in a Palm Sunday procession held in Bucharest by the Roman Catholic Archbishopric.

Photo credit (c): CONSTANTIN DUMA / AGERPRES FILES

An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale has been registered in Romania's Vrancea region early on Sunday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported.

The tremor, with an epicenter 135 km. north of Romania's capital Bucharest, was also felt on the upper floors of high buildings in Bulgaria's Danube city of Ruse.

The latest developments in the accession talks of Montenegro with the European Union were analysed on Thursday by State Secretary for European Affairs with Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) George Ciamba and Montenegro's chief-negotiator for EU Aleksandar Pejovic at a meeting on Thursday in Bucharest.

Photo credit (c): ANGELO BREZOIANU / AGERPRES FILES

A book called "Margareta, m?rturia unui sfert de veac regal / Margareta, Testimonies of a Royal Quarter of Century" by Sandra Gatejeanu-Gheorghe that narrates the princess' "past twenty-five years of representative deeds," and her "rich charity activity along with her contribution to the institutional and cultural development of Romania," will be released on Wednesday in Bucharest, at the Elisa

Romania and Great Britain are compatible in the development of some joint economic projects in important areas such as oil and natural gas, nuclear energy, transport and environment, the British Ambassador in Bucharest, Paul Brummell said on Tuesday on the occasion of Prime Minister Victor Ponta's receiving a delegation of British businesspeople paying an official visit to Bucharest.

Romania's Supreme Court on Monday said it had reopened a case on the miners' uprising of June 13-15, 1990, and had annulled previous rulings not to prosecute anyone in this case.

Elena Stanciu is the first, and actually the only female meteorologist to have tied her life to the history of the Balea Lake weather station located in the Fagaras Mountains (Sibiu County), at an elevation of 2,057 m, which sees the deepest snows in Romania, with the white cover usually well above one meter thick.