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NATO general promises anti-drone system in the Danube Delta coming soon

General Christopher Donahue, the head of the NATO’s ground forces, has announced that an anti-drone system will soon be deployed in Romania’s Danube Delta.  He has publicly assured that capability has already been tested, and Romanian and allied soldiers have been trained to use it. He also says that it is in the final stages of implementation, “and I think you...

Moldova displays Russian drone, summons ambassador over ‘unacceptable’ crash

Moldovan officials took the Russian drone that had crashed onto a residential house and placed it right in front of the Russian embassy. The foreign ministry also summoned the Russian ambassador over the crash. Moldova, which lies between Ukraine and NATO member Romania, has repeatedly seen violations of its airspace since Russia’s invasion of its neighbor in 2022 and has expelled...

Trump and Witkoff, two amateurs 

It is hard to imagine that the publication of the transcript of the discussion between Trump's emissary, Steve Witkoff, and Putin's adviser, Yuri Ushakov, will not accelerate and widen the cracks that have already appeared in the wall built by the Republican Party around the American president. And this, all the more so since the White House leader's aura was...

President Dan: Russia is waging hybrid war against Romania: the threats, risks and opportunities

“We see coordinated disinformation campaigns and we see the consequences,” the president, Nicusor Dan, said. President Dan on Wednesday presented the National Strategy for the Defense of the Country, a document where he said Romania was the target of cyber attacks, coordinated disinformation campaigns. “We see the consequence of these things, pressures on democracy and the rule of law, “...

Stocks vs. Stuff: How consumer hype compares with company performance

New analysis shows how quickly iPhones, cars and electronics shed their value while the brands’ shares post double-digit gains An iPhone 12 bought new 5 years ago is worth around 800 RON today - the same amount invested in Apple shares could be worth almost 10.400 RON* Certain collectible products, such as Labubu dolls, have outperformed their company’s...

A Russian drone landed on the roof of a house in a Moldovan village

Yesterday, 25 November, saw a large-scale drone and missile attack on behalf of Russia.  Russian UAVs violated multiple airspaces.   Six drones entered Moldova, one of which landed on a residential rooftop. It fell there shortly after 9 AM onto the house of a guard working in a fruit orchard in the village of Nizhni Kugureshti, in the Florești district in northern Moldova. An...

What the unhindered flight of Russian drones on Romanian territory left behind

"The pilots should see it, engage it on their radar and shoot a missile at it. Here they failed. I would have liked him to take it down. And they would have liked to take it down, for sure. It is a drone that after the first assessments did not have an explosive charge." The author of the above...

Fake Social

What X’s new transparency revealed is basically an international emergency: Social media is not serious enough to be taken as seriously as we do. Rethink "trending." When X quietly rolled out its new country-of-origin transparency tool, it did not intend to detonate the ecosystem. It was rare high ground for Elon Musk’s beleaguered ex-Twitter, which seemingly recognized a need to...

Romania forced to scramble fighter jets after drones advance deep into territory

Romania was forced to scramble fighter jets early Tuesday after  Russian drones breached deep into its territory entering four counties in what was the most serious incursion since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the defense ministry said. One drone was reportedly still advancing deeper into the country. Two Eurofighters, part of German air-policing missions, were dispatched and tracked a drone...

Italy extradites Ukrainian suspect of Nord Stream blasts

Italy’s highest court has approved the extradition of the Ukrainian national suspected of involvement in an explosion that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines over three years ago. The Nord Stream pipelines were important for supplying Russian natural gas to Europe, directly through Germany and avoiding Ukraine.  They were crucial for Europe's energy security by diversifying import routes, and also had...

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