These guys are known as the Romafest Gypsy Dance Theatre. Here performing 'Verbunk'. I'm sure you will agree, they are quite spectacular to watch and indeed very talented.
If you were Vlad the Impaler (more commonly known as Dracula) of 15th century Romania, you took revenge on people by simply impaling your victims by forcing them to sit on a sharp and thick pole. The pole was then raised upright and the victim was left to slide further down the pole by his or her own weight.
Often, the pole would emerge through the sternum so that its tip could be placed under the chin to prevent further sliding. It could take the victim three days to die. Vlad did this to between 20,000 and 300,000. It is said he enjoyed having a meal while watching impalements.
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A Romanian pensioner has filed for divorce after 50 years because she is fed up with her husband spending their entire pension on stray dogs.
Eliza Barbu, 70, from Focsani, said her husband Mircea had begun giving scraps of food a few years ago to a pair of stray dogs, but he then started feeding a pack of more than 20 strays three times a day, leaving no food for them.
She said she couldn’t accept the fact that we are starving every week while he would use his entire pension to feed the dogs that gather around their house. More and more dogs come every week.
Romanian cities have had a huge problem with packs of feral dogs ever since the country's animal loving dictator Nicolae Ceausescu refused to allow the killing of strays.
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Clepotra was born October 6, 2002 in Chisinau, Moldova and is the daughter of Moldovan-Romanian singer, Pavel Stratan. She is the youngest person ever to score commercial success as a singer, with her 2006 album La vârsta de trei ani ("At the age of 3"). She holds the record for being the youngest artist that performed live for two hours in front of a large audience, the highest paid young artist, the youngest artist to receive an MTV award and the youngest artist to score a #1 hit in a country ("Ghita"
in Romanian Singles Chart).
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A hoax bomb threat caused dozens of guests - among them the Romanian football team Steaua Bucharest - to evacuate their central Budapest hotel in the dead of night, the local news agency MTI reported Thursday.
The guests were only allowed to return to their rooms at 4 a.m. after a thorough search had been conducted, police press officer Laszlo Kalyo said.
Steaua Bucharest are in the Hungarian capital to play the second leg of a Europa League qualification match against the Budapest team Ujpest Thursday. The Romanian side won the first leg 2-0 in Bucharest last week.
An unknown caller phoned the emergency services from a provincial number at around midnight on Wednesday, claiming to have planted a bomb in the city centre hotel, the police said.
Steaua Bucharest are in the Hungarian capital to play the second leg of a Europa League qualification match against the Budapest team Ujpest Thursday. The Romanian side won the first leg 2-0 in Bucharest last week.
An unknown caller phoned the emergency services from a provincial number at around midnight on Wednesday, claiming to have planted a bomb in the city centre hotel, the police said.
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MOTHERWELL will face a trip to former European Cup winners Steaua Bucharest if they can overcome Flamurtari next week.
Jim Gannon's side went down 1-0 to the Albanians in Tirana last night.
But today's Europa League third qualifying round draw handed the Steelmen the chance of a crack at the Eastern European giants.
MORTON are to play Romanian champions Inirea Urziceni at Cappielow on Monday night.
And the good news for fans is that everyone will pay a flat rate charge of only £5 — the exception being under-16s who will get in for nothing.
The Romanian champions, managed by Dan Petrescu, have recenty added Dutch midfielder Edgar Davids to their squad and will provide Morton with a tough test.
The Romanians have pledged to play their strongest team.
Inirea have spent many years in the shadows of the teams from Bucharest and the signing of Edgar Davids shows they have intentions of staying at the summit of the Romanian Liga 1.
Gheorghe Popescu, the former captain of Romania's national football team, has confessed that he was an informer for the country's secret police during the communist era.
Popescu's admission comes just three days after he denied the allegations, calling a newspaper report that he had been a Securitate informant "a big lie."
However, he has now admitted he wrote four notes informing on teammates and other colleagues while he was playing at Universitatea Craiova.
The defender was part of a Romanian team that qualified for three consecutive World Cups starting in 1990 and for two European Championships. He also helped Barcelona win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1997.
When the allegations surfaced on Monday, the 41-year-old Popescu said he had only signed a document in 1985 promising to "defend the national interests" during the regime of the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
However, he has now defended his actions under communism.
"Even if I wrote notes, I wrote good things," he said. "I praised (those) people."
During Ceausescu's rule, the Securitate relied on an army of 700,000 informants in a country of 22 million to keep tabs on the population. The regime's security services kept tabs on Romania's athletes, and some players involved in international competitions were reportedly asked to share details of their conversations with foreigners.
Romania's star football player Gheorghe Hagi, who is related to Popescu through marriage, came to his defence, saying sports had brought glory to Romania in the communist era.
"We (sportsmen) were the ambassadors for Romania. They should look elsewhere" for Securitate agents, he said.
Hagi denied that he himself had been an informant, instead accusing Steaua football club owner Gigi Becali of working for the Securitate.
Becali vigorously denied the accusations. "If It is proved I was an informer, I will hang myself," he said in a televised interview. Becali is a member of the European Parliament for the far right Greater Romania Party.
Daily newspaper Adevarul reported Monday that Popescu had been an informant from 1986 until the regime was toppled three years later.
Popescu's admission comes just three days after he denied the allegations, calling a newspaper report that he had been a Securitate informant "a big lie."
However, he has now admitted he wrote four notes informing on teammates and other colleagues while he was playing at Universitatea Craiova.
The defender was part of a Romanian team that qualified for three consecutive World Cups starting in 1990 and for two European Championships. He also helped Barcelona win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1997.
When the allegations surfaced on Monday, the 41-year-old Popescu said he had only signed a document in 1985 promising to "defend the national interests" during the regime of the late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
However, he has now defended his actions under communism.
"Even if I wrote notes, I wrote good things," he said. "I praised (those) people."
During Ceausescu's rule, the Securitate relied on an army of 700,000 informants in a country of 22 million to keep tabs on the population. The regime's security services kept tabs on Romania's athletes, and some players involved in international competitions were reportedly asked to share details of their conversations with foreigners.
Romania's star football player Gheorghe Hagi, who is related to Popescu through marriage, came to his defence, saying sports had brought glory to Romania in the communist era.
"We (sportsmen) were the ambassadors for Romania. They should look elsewhere" for Securitate agents, he said.
Hagi denied that he himself had been an informant, instead accusing Steaua football club owner Gigi Becali of working for the Securitate.
Becali vigorously denied the accusations. "If It is proved I was an informer, I will hang myself," he said in a televised interview. Becali is a member of the European Parliament for the far right Greater Romania Party.
Daily newspaper Adevarul reported Monday that Popescu had been an informant from 1986 until the regime was toppled three years later.
A road rage driver bit a pedestrian in Romania because he took too long to cross the road.
Mihai Nicoara, 36, told police the furious motorist leapt from his car and sunk his teeth into his belly at a crossing in Iasi.
"He just shouted at me and then grabbed me by the belly with his teeth. He tore my shirt and I have a pretty nasty wound now," he said.
Police say driver Radu Becali is now being charged with assault for the attack.
But Nicoara has vowed to hurry up crossing roads in the future.
"I didn't ever think I was slow at crossing the road. But drivers often beep their horns at me and I just thought they were being friendly," he said.
"Now I'll make sure I never dawdle again," he added.
So next time your dawdling about when crossing the road, let's just hope the drivers who are waiting are not Romanian.
The ‘Nadia Comaneci’ Clinic was opened within the ‘Sfantul Spiridon Vechi’ medical and social establishment on Wednesday 8th Jul 2009, in the presence of the former Romanian gymnast and her family. Also present was Ilie Nastase, the Speakers of the two chambers of the Romanian Parliament, Mircea Geoana and Roberta Anastase and representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
‘The idea of this establishment came after a TV programme stating that the clergy was not committed to social welfare. At that time, I consulted with Patriarch Teoctist and commenced the project of the ‘Sfantul Spiridon’ establishment, for which we borrowed the name from the church, and I was so very happy to receive of the support of major personalities like Nadia Comaneci who has been with this project since the beginning’, stated the priest of the ‘Sfantul Spiridon Vechi’ Church, Ioan Iordache.
Nadia Comaneci said she had accepted the idea of Father Iordache because it sounded special to her. ‘I felt honoured to be invited to take part in this project and now I am enchanted to see that our ideas have come to life and I would like to share my joy with all my friends whom I invite to continue supporting this wonderful establishment where people in need will receive actual assistance’, Comaneci said.
Grammy-winning Jamaican artist Shaggy will return to Romania in order to perform a concert tonight in a club in Bucharest.
The singer had a previous Romanian concert last August, on a beach in Mamaia.
The show in Bucharest will take place at the Turabo Society Club, and the price of a ticket is RON 50. (£10 or $15).
Shaggy was an international Ambassador for the reggae movement from the very beginning, and the only living Jamaican Artist to win a Diamond Record.
He appeared on the music market at the beginning of the 90s, with a remix of the ska song “Oh, Carolina” – his first underground dancehall reggae recording that instantly topped the charts.
After he launched the internationally successful album “Boombastic,” Shaggy was granted a Grammy Award at the “Best Reggae Album” Category.
The year 2000 brought the launch of the album “Hotshot,” which became the best-sold album of the year 2001. It was also sold in 13 million copies worldwide, and had two chart-breaking singles: “It Wasn’t Me” and “Angel.”
In 2002, Shaggy released the album “Lucky Day,” followed a year later by “Friends Reunited: The 90s.”
The year 2005 brought the launch of “Clothes Drop,” hitting the charts with singles such as “Wild2Nite” and “Ready Fi Di Ride.”
Up to this moment, Shaggy sold over 20 million copies of his albums, but the artist is not content, knowing that the only delight of records is surpassing them. 2007 brought the launch of his recording “Bonafide Girl,” followed by “Intoxication.”
Cars in Bucharest have a rough ride - persecuted by dirt from building sites, exhaust fumes, mud in the winter and dust in the summer - not to mention stray dogs marking their ownership of every bumper in a less than dignified fashion.
A clean-up is a regular necessity. But risking the traffic to drive to the car wash can take hours out of a busy person's schedule. Here ex-journalist Raluca Nicoara realised a space in the market in which to manoeuvre - a mobile car-cleaning service. A driver can stay inside their home or workplace, call up Nicoara's new business, Blink Wash, and a team of two will arrive at the door, clean the car's outside in a chemical solution, wipe the windscreens, mirrors and the dashboards, vacuum the carpets, then perfume and wax the car.
Not only convenient, Blink Wash also displays green credentials. The business uses a Brazilian system of car-washing discovered by Nicoara from the Internet - a plastic three-wheel trolley filled with biodegradable cleaning products, which is self-sufficient in energy and water. While a typical car wash uses around 100 litres of water per vehicle, Blink Wash has reduced this to five. Nicoara employs young men living in hostels or children's homes, such as Bucharest's Sfantul Petru si Pavel orphanage.
Angered by the number of youngsters without families who are exploited by local employers, she offers a fair deal to her staff - they receive a decent salary, plus food tickets, a mobile phone, on-the-job training and she is also looking to give them private medical insurance. "I want a big family business." says Nicoara, "and to coach new employees to take on future managerial roles."
Services which are simple, eco-friendly and with a social conscience often factor in these moral benefits at a higher price, but Blink Wash can clean-up the car's interior, exterior and throw in a wax for a highly competitive eight Euro. So is Nicoara making money? "We're already looking to expand," she says.
Elena Bianca Constantin smiles after she was crowned Miss Universe Romania in Bucharest June 27, 2009. Constantin, 20, will represent Romania at the Miss Universe beauty pageant due to be held in Paradise Island, Bahamas, on August 23, 2009.
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Ploieşti has experienced rapid economic growth due to major investments from foreign companies.
The city is situated just 60 km north from Bucharest, with promising infrastructure and many development projects currently underway.
Ploieşti is a strong industrial center, focused especially on the oil production and refining industry. Although oil production in the region is declining steadily, there is still a thriving processing industry through four operating oil refineries, linked by pipelines to Bucharest, the Black Sea port of Constanţa and the Danube port of Giurgiu.
Ploieşti is also a textile manufacturing center.
Ploiesti concentrates many foreign investments: OMV-Petrom, Lukoil, Shell Gas, Timken, Yazaki, Coca Cola, Efes Pilsener, British American Tobacco, Interbrew. Many retailers like Carrefour, Metro, Selgros, Kaufland, Billa, Bricostore, Praktiker, Intermarche, Profi, Mega Image found in Ploieşti a continuously growing market.
In Ploieşti can also be found two McDonald's restaurants, and only one KFC restaurant opened in 2006. The German retailer Tengelmann expects to have some 30 stores this year and has set itself a target of 120 stores by 2010, investing €200 million. To facilitate its growth, Tengelmann built a depot in Ploieşti.
With its Interex operation, the French independent retailer Intermarché intends to become a distribution leader in the Balkans. In Romania the first Interex store was opened in June 2002 in the city of Ploieşti.
Unilever has a detergent plant in Ploieşti. By transferring their food production to Ploieşti, the company will concentrate their full activity in Romania to the same location. At the beginning of March 2006, Unilever announced they would invest EUR 3 million to build one production center in Romania, and the construction of the new food plant is part of this plan.
Last year the NATO Summit was held in Bucharest, Romania. I was surfing the net tonight and I came across an advert a guy posted on his blog. It is absolutely hilarious. I know it is 12 months out of date but read on:
Sniper Position For Rent During NATO SummitNow you have to go and read the comments he received, it had me laughing my ass off....Comments can be read hereFrom my terrace you have a clear view of the People’s House where the NATO 2008 Summit will take place between 2nd and 4th of April. I’m renting out space for whatever needs you might have: TV crew, sniper, etc.
Details:
- each spot has 1m width
- multiple spots available
- 24/7 access to the terrace
- soft drinks and snacks included
- access to a bathroom and storage facility (limited availability)
Price: 5000 EUR / spot / day
For preferred positioning a 25% surcharge will be applied (first come first served basis).
Only one person is allowed for every spot purchased. Additional persons are charged at 500 EUR / person / day for a maximum of 3 persons / spot.
Outside NATO summit period you get a 50% discount for all services.
Full prepayment is required one week in advance to book a spot. I can take Cash, VISA/Mastercard via PayPal or Bank transfer in Romania or offshore account.
Serious inquiries only.
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A Romanian hospital patient had to call the emergency services because nobody heard him crying for help.
Stefan Ososchi, 80, who suffers from an incurable disease, said he was lucky to have his cellphone with him.
He had been admitted to the County Hospital in Botosani and put on a drip but the nurses forgot to come back to take out the needle from his vein.
Mr Ososchi said: "I waited for the nurse come and take the needle out. It had been almost an hour and nobody came.
"I had terrible pains in my arm and I tried to take it off myself but didn't succeed. I began to cry for help. It was in vain so I called 112 and asked for their help."
The head of the County Hospital in Botosani said the two nurses who were in charge of the patient will be disciplined for negligence.
Ambulance service spokesperson Dorina Andronache said: "I thought it was a stupid joke when I heard that somebody from a hospital was asking for help. But it turned out the patient was indeed in trouble." - Ananova.com
It has been twenty long years since that glorious day when the romanian people rose up against the Communists and kicked them out of our country.
But despite the passing of all those years, there are still low life, corrupt greedy people mingling in our government. Time will catch up on them though and one by one we will weed out this vermin and despatch them to prison where they belong.
One was caught this week.
A Bucharest court on Monday (June 15th) sentenced state secretary Emilian Cutean to 5 years in prison on charges of corruption and misappropriation of state funds.
Cutean headed the State Secretariat for Revolutionaries' Affairs -- a government body in charge of giving financial support to people who took part in the 1989 anti-communist revolution.
The court found him guilty of abusing his office by authorising a payment of about 85,000 euros in 2004 to an NGO that he chaired.
Good bye and good riddance to this pig.
The Brown Bear used to wonder all over Europe a long time before any of us European humans did. Despite this, the only place you can see them now is in Romania, Transylvania.
In my area of Tarlungeni, Zizin, Sacele, Brasov they can be seen every night wondering the streets in the quiet hours of early morning looking for food. They don't come looking for us. They empty the public dustbins in their search for a snack. I have seen them hundreds of times in my back garden, emptying out the rubbish all over my lawn as they search for food.
It's no big deal. I go out next day and tidy up, it takes me no more than five minutes and I owe them that much as my race, the human race has all but destroyed every home they ever had in Europe.
A brown bear will not bother you. We tell tourists that if they ever come across a bear while walking in the forests or in the mountains to just stand still and DO NOT under any circumstances look him/her in the eyes. The bear will smell you long before you ever see him, but sometimes they will carry on with their foraging and you may stumble across one. He will see you, check you out from a distance and if you are motionless and not staring in his eyes, he will go away. To stare in his eyes is a threatening gesture to a bear, he WILL feel threatened, and believe me, you do not want to be on the receiving end of the wrath of one of these guys.
The only time you could be in real trouble will be if you come across a mother bear with her cubs. This is very unlikely to happen, she will smell you from a great distance and will take her cubs away to safety. If you do stumble across the mother bear, again look down in a subordinate way, and very very slowly back away from her. You might get lucky and she will let you go. But the mother bear is ferociously protective of those babies and will KILL any single threat to them.
But the odds of you getting anywhere near her to see her cubs is remote.
Despite all this advice, stupid tourists come to Transylvania, they see a bear and they think it is cute, they shout to them, throw food for them and screech and shout. This panics the bear, makes him feel threatened and he will attack. These bears are cute, they are beautiful creatures, but they are killing machines and people wont listen to advice.
Because of the stupidity of tourists, it has now been necessary to move 25 bears from their homes in the Sinaia Mountain region. Because the tourists don't know hot to respect other creatures, who have more right to be there than they have, these bears lose their homes.
I am so fucking angry this has happened. I am so sad too. These creatures have all but been forced out of Europe.
Let them be now. Leave their homes and their land alone.
BUCHAREST, Romania -- Authorities have launched an operation to relocate about 25 brown bears at the Sinaia Mountain resort, in an effort to ensure tourists are safe. Sinaia Mayor Vlad Oprea announced on Wednesday (June 17th) that several bears have already been moved to forests in the Arges region, about 100km west. Increasingly, bears in the Carpathian Mountains are heading down to towns looking for food. Tourists have been snapping photos of them and in some cases, even offering them food, which has led to scattered attacks over the years. (AFP, Ziare, Darik - 17/06/09)
Below is a story from the Daily Telegraph which reported on Romanians being attacked and their houses wrecked by people in Northern Ireland. This is a disgraceful thing to happen in a so called civilised society.
It is not the fault of the Irish, of course. Hopefully it is a mindless few who do this, or at least I hope it is.
We as Romanians are a peaceful people. So let me tell you this, anyone, and I mean ANYONE is welcome to our country and we will greet you with open arms and make you feel like you are a part of our family.
I hear this shit that people speak saying we come from Romania and we take jobs from the people of the UK. This is nonsense. Very few of the people who come to the UK or France and other places in Europe are qualified for good paid jobs they are normally hard working honest Romanians who are fleeing nothing more than poverty.
All they ask for is a place to live and they will work hard to support their families, and this is all. They wont bother you or your family and will stay away from you if that is what you wish. If you choose to befriend the Romanians they will be a friend for life.
This deal works both ways and we, as Romanians, get the shit end of the deal I feel but nothing is new there.
People come from Western Europe and buy up property and land in our country and then they want to destroy it all to build big time ski resorts across our beautiful countryside in Transylvania to satisfy the demands for holidays etc etc for Western Europeans and Americans.
We don't want our beautiful mountains destroyed and our medieval towns and villages commercialised, but such is mans desire for leisure and relaxation, we will have no choice in this issue. Mankind destroys everything that is beautiful anyway. So Transylvania will soon become a beautiful memory only for us.
People need to live in peace and harmony. Romanians will harm nobody, they just want a basic, normal life like the people in the West enjoy. Is that too much to ask for while you destroy our mountains?
A group of Romanians has again been attacked in Northern Ireland as politicians are due to meet to discuss racist offences against immigrants.
In the latest incident, the home of a Romanian family came under attack in east Belfast at about 11pm on Wednesday night, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.
A police spokesman said it was being treated as a hate crime.
The attack came after a gang allegedly broke into two homes in the university area of the city and vandalised the properties, made Nazi salutes and chanted slogans linked with the far-right group Combat 18.
One hundred migrants were left homeless as they moved out, fearing further attacks.
Dr Mihai Delcea, Romania's consul general, has asked for to meetings in Northern Ireland and is expected to meet Margaret Ritchie, the Social Development Minister, at the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont.
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Italy's rakish prime minister / media mogul, Silvio Berlusconi, has said he wants to see some "fresh faces" in the upcoming 2009 European parliamentary elections, and it appears his wish will be granted.
One candidate is 28-year-old Elena Basescu, sexy daughter of Traian Basescu, the president of Romania.
Dubbed the "Romanian Paris Hilton," she's done some modeling, is quite the party girl and has had many beaus.
In response to critics who say she doesn't have the intellectual firepower needed to represent her country in the European Parliament, her father counters that Elena is "much cleverer than people think." Nice Maserati, too.
One candidate is 28-year-old Elena Basescu, sexy daughter of Traian Basescu, the president of Romania.
Dubbed the "Romanian Paris Hilton," she's done some modeling, is quite the party girl and has had many beaus.
In response to critics who say she doesn't have the intellectual firepower needed to represent her country in the European Parliament, her father counters that Elena is "much cleverer than people think." Nice Maserati, too.
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