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Georgina Harding, Author of Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlisted Painter of Silence (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 05.25.2012

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Crane.tv

Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding's third novel -- recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction -- is set in Romania in the early fifties ...

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VIDEO: Last Dictator Standing

Posted 01.25.2012

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Those were the days, my friend. In a new commercial for the South African restaurant chain Nando's, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is spending a l...

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Romania's "Red Circuit": Equal Distributions Of Fun!

Posted 10.19.2011

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Romania's Tourism Ministry is publicizing the country’s new “Red Circuit,” a tourist trail featuring the spots party leader and avid bear hunter...

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Romanian Dictator Ceausescu And Wife Exhumed To Solve Burial Mystery

AP | ALISON MUTLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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BUCHAREST, Romania — The mystery of where former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were buried moved closer to resolution W...

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The Power of One - How a Revolution Is Made

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fernando Espuelas

Nicolae Ceausescu today is the iconic example of the arrogance of power brought to an end by the will of the people.

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Herta Mueller, Nobel Prize Winner, Hid In The Forest With Editor To Proofread Manuscripts

Monsters and Critics | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller used to meet her German proof-reader in the forest to hide from Romania's Securitate communist secret poli...

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Remembering the Fake Revolution -- Part 2: The "Revolution"

Carmen Burcea-Haber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carmen Burcea-Haber

A man wearing civilian clothes was firing a Kalashnikov right next to us, aiming up at a building. We were herded again to another position and we ran, jumping over pools of blood.

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Nobel Author Herta Mueller: Her Personal Struggle Against Dictatorship

AP | MALIN RISING | Posted 05.25.2011

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STOCKHOLM — The 2009 Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller said Monday she started writing when it was no longer possible to use spoken wo...

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Remembering the Fake Revolution -- Part 1: The Communist Years

Carmen Burcea-Haber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carmen Burcea-Haber

Outside of Yugoslavia, I think Romania in the 60's was among the luckier of the countries in the communist world. But unlike Yugoslavians, we were not free to travel or express ourselves so openly.

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Remembering the Fake Revolution -- Part 3: After the "Revolution"

Carmen Burcea-Haber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carmen Burcea-Haber

The damaged caused over decades in communist and post-communist Romania has left scars still visible today, evident in the lack of self-respect, trust and hope among the people.

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My Private Revolution: Stripping on Ceausescu's Desk

Carmen Burcea-Haber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carmen Burcea-Haber

I recently found myself involved in a discussion with a 20-year-old friend about how striptease could be an empowering experience for a woman and how it could also be completely free of sexual content.

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