Geography of Romania

The pilot of the MIG 21 LanceR aircraft that crashed on Tuesday in Mures County is in a stable condition, being conscious and cooperative, according to the Defence Ministry (MApN). According to a MApN statement, the plane belonged to the 71st Cimpia Turzii Air Base and was used in a training flight. The aircraft crashed around 14:30hrs near Dedrad, Mures County, in an uninhabited area.

A waste container, arrived by ship in southeastern Constanta Port from Norway, was found by the authorities, and it will be returned to the sender, the Coast Guard informed on Friday. The waste container had been brought to our country for a company in (southeastern ) Braila County.

Young people passionate about visual arts, theatre, music and dance, aged between 14 and 19, are invited by the "Radu Stanca" National Theatre in Sibiu (TNRS) to participate in the "Liberty" project, which will take place between April 8 and May 3, informs a press release sent to AGERPRES.

Containers loaded with waste brought via ship from various countries were spotted by the border police of southeastern Constanta port, the waste being illegally imported into Romania by two companies registered in the county of Prahova and Bucharest Municipality, the Coast Guard informed on Thursday. The cargo were falsely declared as being used domestic goods.

The ports in the county of Constanta were closed on Wednesday because of the dense fog.

The "Prietenii Berzelor" ("Friends of Storks") Association was fined by the Sibiu Environmental Guard with a fine of 10,000 lei, after the association's volunteers rescued two bear cubs, abandoned near Biertan commune, which are currently at the sanctuary in Zarnesti, in Brasov County, announced the president of the NGO, Miruna Gritu, in a press release.

Trucks exiting Romania through the Giurgiu-Ruse Border Crossing Point to Bulgaria have to wait 60 minutes, the waiting line reaching about eight kilometres on the first lane of Giurgiu - Bucharest National Road 5. According to the Giurgiu Border Police, the number of lorries crossing the border at Giurgiu has increased, which led to an increase in the waiting time devoted to these vehicles.

Police officers from the Economic Crime Investigation Directorate of the Romanian Police General Inspectorate (IGPR) and prosecutors of the Bucharest Court of Appeal carry out, on Wednesday, 62 home searches in Bucharest and in the counties of Ilfov, Bacau, Brasov, Calarasi, Giurgiu, Ialomita and Vaslui, in two criminal cases involving a tax evasion estimated at 20 million euros in the trade in

The trucks that want to leave Romania through the Giurgiu-Ruse Border Checkpoint form queues of approximately five kilometers on the first lane of National Road 5 Bucharest-Giurgiu and have to wait 40 minutes at the border control.

Just like the victims of the Revolution, the political detainees of the communist regime have not yet received their justice, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Ludovic Orban wrote on Tuesday in a message on the occasion of the Day of the 1944 - 1989 Anti-Communist Political Detainees and Deportees.