Romanian Police Can’t Run Background Checks

There are few tabloids more lurid than Britain’s Daily Mail but once you get past the hyperbolic headlines you get to a nugget of truth: Police and immigration officers are searching for hundreds of ‘very serious’ foreign criminals in Britain after massive delays in obtaining their conviction records from Romania. UK detectives inundated authorities in the Eastern European country with requests for background intelligence on … Continue reading Romanian Police Can’t Run Background Checks

Shooting Grandfather

I’m always on the hunt for interesting stories and developments in Romania, or by Romanians, but this one has to be one of the best that I’ve seen in a while. A Romanian photographer named Dragos Ionescu went to Britain to study photography. After a few years, he decided to shoot “cinematic” photos of his elderly grandfather. Amazing stuff! Click on the link to see … Continue reading Shooting Grandfather