Romania defends decision to return Dracula castle to NY architect
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"The (lawmakers panel's) decision is wrong. It's a political one, and it proves that private property is not respected in Romania"  Romania's government on Thursday defended its decision to return Dracula's Castle to a New York-based member of the former royal family, denying allegations that the decision was illegal.The castle, famous for its links to a 15th-century medieval ruler who inspired Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' was confiscated in 1948 by the former communist regime.'When it comes to property confiscated by the communists, I as a prime minister don't have any problems with returning it,' Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said. Read more
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St. Petersburg residents spoke out against the planned construction of a 1,050-foot-tall skyscraper for the headquarters of the state energy company Gazprom at a public hearing.
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Romania&#39;s minority centrist  government survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote on  Monday that had been proposed by President Traian Basescu&#39;s  opposition Democrat party.
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A Dracula theme park will be built at a lakeside resort where Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for the fictional bloodthirsty count, is buried, private Radio Total reported Thursday.
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BUCHAREST - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declined Tuesday to state a specific timetable for the possible establishment of US military bases in Romania, Mediafax news agency reported.
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A Romanian-built offering based on a military vehicle is about to charge into the U.S. sport-utility vehicle market, although the low-volume model isn't likely to trample on Toledo-built descendants of the ...
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Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Athens Fernand Kartheiser, who is also accredited to Romania, on Wednesday in Bucharest presented the priorities of the new Luxembourg presidency of the European ...
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BUCHAREST, Nov 25  Romania's ruling ex-communists say they will bring a modern, competitive Romania free of corruption into the European Union in 2007 if they win Sunday's close election battle.
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A deal struck last week between the EU and Romania left open the way for Hungary's eastern neighbor to sign its accession treaty with the union early next year - but also set strict conditions that if ...
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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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Outgoing President Ion Iliescu, Romania's leader for most of the last 25 years, defended his record as leader, saying concerns about press freedoms are exaggerated and efforts to stamp out corruption are progressing.
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Romanian president Ion Iliescu on Monday said his country was determined to complete by year-end negotiations with Brussels over its entry into the European Union.
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By Peter MacMahon Scottish Goverment Editor  THE company behind controversial plans to site the world's largest onshore wind farm in the Western Isles last night strongly denied that pressing ahead with the project would breach European rules on protecting wildlife.
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New York critics are taking a bite out of &quot;Dracula, the Musical,&quot; the Des McAnuff-directed, La Jolla Playhouse-sprung musical that opened last night at Broadway&#39;s Belasco Theatre.
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Hundreds of fans turned out Tuesday in this Transylvanian city for the funeral of a Romanian rock star killed in a car accident involving a U.S. Marine, who has immunity from prosecution and later left the country.
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Argentina's Jose Acasuso defeated Italy's Filippo Volandri 7-6 (5), 6-2 Saturday and will play Russia's Igor Andreev for the Romania Open championship.
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MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania - To entice the US military to make a home here, what better symbolic appeal could the Romanian government make than to rename a street here &quot;George Washington Boulevard?