Romanian

Two months had then passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Central and Eastern Europe had started to enjoy the long-awaited freedoms they were denied for half a century by their Soviet masters.

But as that part of the continent was festively breaking free from its shackles, Romania remained untouched by the winds of change under the monolithic rule of a recalcitrant megalomaniac.

Two traditional costumes originating from northeastern Tara Nasaudului from a collection belonging to a Bistrita woman fascinated with the traditional clothing beauty, Silvia-Florea Toth, will be admired on Monday, on the Day of the Romanian Blouse, the worldwide known as Ia, in Rome, at an exhibition organised by the League of the Romanian Students Abroad, the Italian branch, at the "Accademia

The murder in London of a young Romanian whose girlfriend said he had come to England "looking for a better life" has jolted Britain out of its festive post-Christmas mood of complacency and made front-page headlines.

A series of direct support measures for ethnic Romanians enrolled with schools in Ukraine providing Romanian-language tuition were developed by the Romanian Government on Wednesday, at the proposal of the Ministry for Romanians Abroad (MRP).

The Junii Brasovului Festival, an ancient custom the roots of which are lost in the mists of time, is rightly considered as a unique folk practice, a bountiful reminiscence of the values of the Dacian way of life in this region, says Vasile Oltean, PhD, Professor, director of the Museum of the First Romanian School in the Scheii Brasovului neighborhood and author of the book "Juni