Romanian orphans rescued by British families were left with shrunken brains, study finds
Children raised in deprived orphanages in communist
Romania have brains that are one tenth smaller than English adoptees', research
shows.
Scientists took brain scans of nearly 70 people
raised in Romanian institutions in the 1980s and later adopted by families in
Britain which showed that early neglect left its mark, British newspapers reported.
The volunteers...
Message written by Romanian political prisoners found hidden in walls of Constanta Casino. ‘They were brought here to be exterminated. Many weighed just 40 kilograms’
Romanian workers restoring the casino in the Black Sea port of Constanta have found a 70-year-old message from political prisoners of the Communist regime hidden in the plaster.
The prisoners, who had been incarcerated in the Poarta Alba labor camp, were sent to rebuild the bombed-out casino in the 1950s, the state news agency...
Coronavirus pandemic casts shadow over Romania’s national holiday days ahead of elections
Romanians celebrated their national holiday on Tuesday but the coronavirus pandemic cast a shadow over the celebrations which were held days before the country goes to the polls.
There was no customary large military parade or thousands of flag-waving Romanians
lining the streets of Bucharest and other cities.
Some 150 soldiers...
UPDATE.Romanian prime minister resigns after losing elections
Romania's Prime Minister Ludovic Orban resigned on Monday after his Liberal Party unexpectedly lost parliamentary elections.
"We need a responsible government," Mr. Orban said. "I don't want to cling to the post of prime minister," he said a day after his center-right Liberals came second in the ballot with about 25.5% of the vote,...
Fireworks, a few masks … and a lot of traffic. Romanians mark first day post-lockdown
At midnight, fireworks went off around Bucharest as residents celebrated the end of two months of a state of emergency.
There
were church services Friday morning to mark the end of the lockdown, but no
worshipers in churches. Celebration of the Eucharist has been deferred as the Romanian
Orthodox Church does not want to use plastic spoons...
Romanian mayors can stay in office until November due to coronavirus pandemic
With local elections postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Parliament has voted to allow Romanian mayors, local counselors and county chairmen to legitimately stay in office until November.
Romanian lawmakers at the Chamber of Deputies on Monday voted 204 votes for, three votes against and 66 abstentions to extend the mandates for all...
Romania airline boss: “Minister asked me to ground FIVE flights” to stop opposition lawmakers voting in no-confidence vote
The general manager of Romania’s national airlines Tarom says that the transport minister asked her to ground five domestic flights on the day of a no-confidence vote in an apparent bid to stop opposition lawmakers reaching the capital on Oct. 10 when Parliament voted to oust the Social Democratic government.
Media reported this week...
Romania fails to deliver justice for victims of bloody miners’ rampage 30 years on
Thirty years ago, club-wielding coal miners smashed a pro-democracy protest in the heart of the Romanian capital and went on a savage rampage that lasted three days and left at least six dead and 500 injured.
After wanton acts of vigilante violence from June 13-15, recently elected President Ion Iliescu publicly thanked the miners...
Romanian court: Top surgeon suspected of bribery ‘turned prestigious institution into personal business’
A Romanian court says a top
surgeon who’s charged with taking a 10,000 euro bribe had a history of taking
money from underqualified medics in exchange for jobs at an elite medical
institution.
The surgeon, Mircea Beuran, was placed under house arrest last week pending an investigation into whether he took the kickback promising that he’d...
US Ambassador praises European court ruling on Romania’s ex anti-graft chief
The U.S. Ambassador to Romania, Adrian Zuckerman, has hailed a European court ruling that said Romania’s former anti-graft chief was wrongly dismissed.
The decision from the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday “reemphasizes the paramount import of the rule of law in a democracy,” Zuckerman said.
“Without recourse to a...
