Alone against the timber mafia
Of all of Romania’s mountainous regions,Maramureș is the one where it’s most dangerous to be a forester. In recent years, three foresters have been killed and dozens more have been injured in attacks...
View ArticlePeople without borders. Reportage from the Romania-Ukraine border
Thousands more people entered Romania from Ukraine through the Siret crossing point last night. Most of them were women and children, as men aren’t allowed to leave their country in wartime. After...
View ArticleA story from Kyiv: the war that’s changing cities and lives
The war in Ukraine isn’t just a war between armies. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in Kyiv form a second line of defence with boxes of bananas, bread, medicines, military equipment and...
View ArticleUndercover mission for a mafia state
Over the years, we’ve resigned ourselves to associating the Romanian state with incompetence and made jokes about it. All the while, an invisible and all-powerful underworld has been taking shape...
View ArticleThe Price of Silence: A probe into the partisan media’s accounts
Control over the media has always been a hot-button issue in Romania, but what we’ve witnessed in recent years is different. From a media dependent on funding from politically connected moguls and...
View ArticleThe Controller in the Shadows
Imagine that a policeman is told, out of the blue, that he’s not allowed to work any more. The only information he gets is: security clearance denied. He has no right to find out why his career’s over...
View Article“You girls are all mine!” The archdeacon and the pupils at the theological...
UPDATE 28 March 2023: A second teacher at Baia Mare Theological School is leaving the institution due to allegations of inappropriate relationships with minors enrolled there. In the wake of our...
View ArticleA Farewell to Arms: The Romanian Army as resignations hit a new peak
In a statement posted recently on the website of the Ministry of National Defence, minister Angel Tîlvăr said that the Romanian Army is now “one of the most respected armies in NATO, having proved...
View ArticleRecycling in Romania: chaos, corruption and incompetence
We’re bottom of the European league table when it comes to recycling, but what they don’t know in Brussels is that even the shamefully low percentages we report every year seem to be a long way from...
View ArticleAbove Us All. The cost of the president’s secret flights
It’s no secret these days that President Klaus Iohannis has a taste for travelling in luxury jets. What his office wants to keep under wraps is the details of how much it pays for this presidential...
View ArticleThe Carpathian Cartel
Interest groups made up of senior government officials and front men through whom assets are amassed. Political protection from those in charge of major institutions. Fortunes too big to fit inside...
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