Iași is the second largest city of Romania, nearing 400.000 people and even surpassing half of million when including the metropolitan area. Over 56.000 of them are the students of the six universities in town. And almost as young are the employees of numerous IT corporations present, that make the economy dynamic and the area […]

Primul marș pentru unirea Moldovei cu România desfășurat la București a avut parte în prealabil aproape de un boicot al presei, astfel încât e o realizare că aproximativ 3.000 de persoane s-au adunat la miting. Participanții erau preponderent tineri, adunați după o intensă campanie de promovare pe Facebook și câteva site-uri, câțiva suporteri ai unor […]

In 1939, a week before the beginning of the second world war, the foreign affairs ministers of Hitler and Stalin (Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov) signed a secret treaty that stated not only the perfect cooperation between communists and nazis, but also divided Europe into spheres of influence. Certain countries, like Poland and Romania […]

Moldavia (Moldova) is for the time being separated in two countries. The larger, eastern part, belongs to Romania, and the territory west of river Prut forms the independent republic of Moldova. As this historic region was split up shortly after the secret pact between the communists and the nazis in 1939, this makes Romania the […]

Studentii basarabeni aflati la studii in Romania au manifestat in marile centre universitare din tara, in semn cu tinerii de varsta lor care au pornit o adevara revolutie anticomunista la Chisinau. Studentii moldoveni care invata la Iasi nu au fost lasati sa treaca Prutul pentru a se alatura manifestatiilor de protest fata de furtul alegerilor […]

Bucovina este un spațiu în care tradițiile populare românești și-au păstrat puritatea. Chiar și aerul e unul mai curat aici, fiind una dintre zonele cele mai împădurite ale țării. Regiunea păstrează amprenta civilizației austro-ungare ca urmare a includerii ei în Imperiul Habsburgic în 1775. Geografic, Bucovina se întinde de la Vatra Dornei, Câmpulung, Gura Humorului, […]

Mănăstirea Voroneț e cea mai faimoasă dintre ctitoriile lui Ștefan cel Mare, un monument aflat și pe lista patrimoniului mondial UNESCO. Frescele sale vorbesc despre rafinatele cunoștinte ezoterice ale teologilor medievali moldoveni și despre talentul artistic al meșterilor anonimi. Exteriorul bisericii mănăstirii Voronețul e la 5 kilometri de Gura Humorului, județul Suceava, iar din 1991 […]

Found near the fortress of king Stephen The Great, the Village Museum of Suceava holds a remarkable patrimony of vestiges of Moldavian peasant lifestyle from the area of Bukovina. On the alleys of this village museum you can stroll as if you were in a place untouched by modern technology, with wooden houses that have […]

The Voronet Monastery is the most famous buildings of Stephan The Great, a monument included on the list of UNESCO’s world heritage. Its frescoes speak of subtle esoteric knowledge held by medieval theologians of Moldavia and also of the skills of anonymous painters. Voronet is situated 5 km to Gura Humorului, in the county of […]

The protests against the communist government in power in Moldova arose sympathy in neighbor Romania as well as calls for reunification of the two Romanian states. At least one student was killed in Chisinau in what was called a “twitter revolution” as youngsters used social media to spread their message and gather for protests in […]