Category: Преступление и Наказание
The Little Fish Who Ran
If you’ve been exposed to Romanian media even a little during the past week then I know that you’ve heard about Mihail Boldea. If not, here’s a brief summary in English. On the face of it, there’s not much for me to add and I’m not running a news service here so ordinarily I wouldn’t even do much more than briefly mention it, if I … Continue reading The Little Fish Who Ran
(Romanian) Criminal Minds
You might remember I wrote a nifty little post about promoting fear in the press a short while back. Well lately the British media has been in full force, scaring their readers about dem ole sneaky snake Romanians (don’t you know they’re from Eastern Europe? Run for your lives!) Here’s one from the “Daily Mail”, a rather sleazy gossip newspaper, with a piece about how … Continue reading (Romanian) Criminal Minds
Implausible Deniability
The fact that the CIA has had secret jail and torture rooms in Romania is not new information. But my email has been blowing up of late on the subject because now there’s new specific information on exactly where one of those torture cells was in Romania. And it turns out it was in downtown (Sector 1) Bucharest. From CBS News, quoting from the AP: … Continue reading Implausible Deniability
And So Fell Lord Perth…
Well if you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you know about the times I’ve tangled with Sorin Apostu, the Lord of Cluj, the mayor of the city in which I reside. This is “breaking” news, which means the full story hasn’t developed, but investigators from the DNA (national anti-corruption office) swarmed on City Hall this morning. Furthermore, they also sent a number of agents … Continue reading And So Fell Lord Perth…
All Things Romania 