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Former presidential candidate Calin Georgescu who caused a stunning upset by  winning the first round of Romania's presidential elections campaigned on negative messaging about NATO and the European Union. The pro-Russia candidate who also said he doubted the war in Ukraine, was guilty of ‘challenging the essential purpose of NATO’ according to Andrew Baker, the director of the American Jewish...

Romania’s Ambassador to the US said far-right presidential candidate Calin Georgescu was supported Russia, a state that NATO describes as the most significant threat to the alliance and Romanian security. Speaking a day after Romania's Constitutional Court canceled the presidential elections over Russian interference, two days before the runoff, Andrei Muraru said Mr.Georgescu would have been "a disaster" on many...

Britain’s foreign minister is disturbed by claims of Russian meddling in Romania’s elections but said London remains ‘confident in its democracy’ even after Bucharest canceled a presidential runoff. Foreign Secretary David Lammy posted a message on X a day after Romania's Constitutional Court sensationally annulled the second round of elections following the release of declassified intelligence reports that showed Russian...

In a global first, Romania cancels its presidential election due to Russian interference. Will the US and Europe take note? For nearly two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin has used election interference as a weapon to reshape the global order in his favor. From his meddling in US elections to his support for Brexit and far-right movements across Europe, the...

Investigative site Snoop on Tuesday revealed how Russian money, paid for seemingly benign advertisements, featuring homeopathic medicine and news about saints, came to influence Romanians' vote in recent presidential elections. Journalists reported they were later threatened after the article was published. Snoop published  recordings of threats where individuals said they had data on journalists who bother them which will be used...

Information declassified on Wednesday by Romanian authorities about massive foreign support that benefited Calin Georgescu in the elections for the country’s top role is a sufficient argument for an extensive and swift criminal investigation. In fact, the Prosecutor General's Office on Wednesday evening said it is already analyzing this. (Although, personally, I would say that even at this stage the...

Romania's top security council on Wednesday declassified documents describing Russia's alleged involvement in the first round of its presidential elections. One of the documents details how Calin Georgescu, the leading far-right outsider candidate, was massively promoted on social media platform TikTok through coordinated accounts and paid promotion. The involvement is similar to the Russian attack on Ukraine prior to the February...

The last Holocaust survivor in Bucharest fears the rise of far-right in Romania and called on Romanians to vote for pro-European centrist mayor in a presidential runoff this weekend. Octavian Fulop recalled the “horrors of extremism, the Legionnaires and the Holocaust did not begin with camps, but with words, and from these, later, they moved on to violence and extermination.” Mr....

The ‘structures’* that had the task of "spotting" Călin Georgescu or not allowing the toy that Moscow has been crafting for over a decade to get out of hand, have the single task this week of fixing the problem and showing the people that they can still be efficient and true patriotic servants of the people. And the public, if...

Andrew Baker, a leading expert on anti-Semitism in Europe has denounced Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu for fanning 'the flames of antisemitism' and 'challenging the essential purpose of NATO'. Mr. Georgescu who was reached the December 8 runoff, has praised interwar fascist leaders such as Legionaire  leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and is known for his NATO and EU skeptic views. In...