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The Romanian Cultural Institute in Warsaw, represented by director Ovidiu Dajbog-Miron, took over the presidency of the EUNIC Warsaw cluster, the European network of cultural institutes and diplomatic representations accredited in the Polish capital. This is the second

Democracy as Form of Life In 1993, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner published the book The Global Resurgence of Democracy, in which different authors shared, with unconcealed satisfaction, the diagnosis according to which “democracy’s third wave” takes place worldwide

Lebanese civil society and cultural actors will participate, between the 13 and 15 of May 2012, in the Euro-Mediterranean Forum on Creative Industries and Society, organised at the Dead Sea, in Jordan, by the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC). The event

 „Fostering Artistic Practices: Call for project proposals for 2012. Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice and Romanian Cultural Institute „Dimitrie Cantemir of Istanbul The Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research of Venice

Held under the auspices of Mr. Václav Havel, famous Czech writer and politician, the project „Generation '89, marks the anniversary of two decades since the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The project targets young people who were born

Armenian Church; St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral; Stirbey house on Calea Victoriei excerpts from the debate organized by Ileana Foundation for Contemporary Fine Arts and Modern Architecture in Romania, hosted at UNA Gallery on May 12th 2008 Nowadays, the oldest

Fragmentos BATALLA FLORAL[1] Texto escrito con tinta en una hoja de papel. La batalla floral estaba en lo mejor aquel sábado (1894). . . y por haber oído repetidas veces tantas cosas sobre la misma, me había ido yo también para ver de que se trataba. . . Mi amigo

Architecture represents a means of interrogating history. Rather ominous, it is to be feared, when the question applies to the Romanian capital. Why so? The way Bucharest has been subjected to transformations in the last century accounts for the living changes affecting

excerpts Chapter III: BUCHAREST-WALLACHIA (…) My advice to the fatigued traveler who arrives in Bucharest is to pay his first visit to the excellent Turkish baths which we were to try ourselves soon. These establishments, mostly situated in the quarter by the Dâmboviţa

Excuse my asking sir, but people say that the grandmother of the family in whose flat you have a furnished room is your mistress. Should that bother anyone? She is a good-looking woman who has just turned 56 and if you must know it, she is quite a spicy one. It was her who

1. The Mirror of the SelfThere are people, quite a few, and not particularly the happy ones, who are themselves their main concern. They pay a great deal of attention to all the signals their body sends. For them, the physical well-being is a goal in itself, which should

Iaşi, July 12, 1942. We get news from Bucharest that Marshal Ion Antonescu is seriously ill in Predeal. All kinds of versions about his disease, general anemia or the consequences of an old syphilis, so he had to undergo malaria treatment. Meanwhile, it seems that the old