Movie Review | '12:08 East of Bucharest': A Romanian Town Slouches Toward Revolution and Beyond
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Though it is modest, almost anecdotal, in scale, â12:08 East of Bucharestâ is also characterized by a precise and sneaky formal wit.
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BUCHAREST, Romania -- Romanian television has an unlikely hit on its hands, a sitcom with a cast of racy characters who sit in a country pub and get laughs discussing the fine points of the bureaucracy and regulations of the European Union.
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Relations between Bucharest and Kyiv have been strained for some time over their inability to reach an agreement concerning the delimitation of the continental shelf around Serpents Island (Zmiyinyy Ostrov) in ...
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BUCHAREST, Feb 7 (IPS) - Petrosani, a town of about 50,000, presents a stark  picture today of what the abrupt replacement of state socialism  by unbridled capitalism can do.
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outspoken Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu in a key vote for the Balkan country&#39;s European Union accession path. mountain of reforms necessary for its planned 2007 EU entry.
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The crisis in Ukraine is seen primarily as a political split between east and west.
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Soldiers joined the uprising against Ceausescu in 1989 As many as two million people were killed or persecuted by the former communist authorities in Romania, an official report says.Comment
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Brian Springerâs bizarre documentary âThe Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulityâ is, among many things, a treatise on how history is passed along.
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The latest social-realism drama to emerge from Romania's New Wave is about a women seeking an illegal abortion during the CeauÅescu regime.
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BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanians returned to the polls Sunday for a presidential runoff between their leftist prime minister, formerly a member of the communist elite, and the capital&#39;s Western-leaning mayor.
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The film has many an interesting nugget about it.
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At approximately 12:05 yesterday morning, history was made in perhaps the most remarkable way imaginable. Amid the shouts of euphoria from transplanted Bostonians in rainy Collegetown, one singular theme could
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At a time when the country is faced with a new tangle of problems, the return of the â80s action hero suggests that some Americans, particularly men, are looking to revel in the vestigial pleasures of older times and seemingly simpler ways.
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Moldova, that's where. Formerly part of the Soviet bloc, the small country is shoehorned between Ukraine and Romania.
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When Romanians pick a president Sunday, their main choice is between the forces of the past &#151; flawed but comfortingly familiar &#151; and an inexperienced challenger promising a dynamic, Western-leaning future.
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Once a byword for poverty and  post-communist racketeering, Poland's second largest city of  Lodz was a place people wanted to escape. Today some are moving  back, drawn by foreign investment and falling unemployment.
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The Sarajevo film festival that once represented an unusual act of defiance to war has proven its worth as the most important showcase for films in south east Europe this week as it drew thousands of people to its screenings.