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The Romanian Cultural Institute in London launches, on February 14th, the new series ”Inspired Romanians & Romanian Inspirations in the Albion, dedicated to Romanian personalities risen and recognized in Great Britain in fields of great importance. Periodically, one

To our readers In Tolstoy’s War and Peace, there is a marginal, but highly amusing, character, the diplomat Bilibin. He is admired for his wit and feared for his sarcasm. He gives prince Andrew a mischievous account of the 1807 campaign, marked by the battles

The 14th edition of the European Film Festival, organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute, will take place over May 6 - 30, 2010 in Bucharest, Braşov, Iaşi, Tîrgu-Mureş and Timişoara. The program will include over 50 films, representing 28 European countries.

Events - Scholarships for translators. Translators in training Subsequent to the 9th April 2009 session of the jury for the Translators in training programme of the Romanian Cultural Institute - The National Book Centre, scholarships have been granted to the following applicants:

Edited in Romanian Contents Lettre Internationale no 82 RetrospectiveNicolae Manolescu – Caracatița cenzurii Adrian Mihalache – Troilus și Cresida – 1965. Deruta lui Wilhelm Meister Ion Vianu – Paul, Sașa Bogdan Murgescu – Declarația din aprilie 1964, după

Can forests of the Carpathians be a reference point for the virgin forests of the Central Europe? The proof for this is represented by xylobiont Coleopterans Over recent years many German experts specialising in forestry have visited forests in Romania and Ukraine. On these

Mister Kă is closely watching a pair of young-people-not-actually-young-seen-from-up-close, that pair of young-people-in-the-distance-who-look-different-from-up-close, that pair is getting on bus #92, the bus which is taking you, taking everybody, in the direction of the

H. -R. Patapievici – born March 18, 1957 (Bucharest). Physics studies (1977-1981; specialization degree 1982), researcher (1986-1994), assistant professor (1990-1994), director of studies (1994-1996), member of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives

As I was translating with much esteem Mr. Vintila Mihailescu's text entitled Neo-Western-Supremacism, it suddenly dawned on me: the inyourpocket presentation he discusses, one fascinated with primitive Romania, shows an attitude somewhat similar to that of Englishman

Born in Botosani (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) in 1850, Mihai Eminescu is widely regarded as Romania's finest romantic writer, and is recognized as both Romania and Moldova's national poet. Most Romanians can recite line after line of his work, the

Cismigiu gardens, Icoanei park, Kiseleff park (see also The green within in Gallery). Many of Bucharest’s gardens and parks, which no longer exist because of extensive urban reorganising, were shaped as the aristocracy tastefully redesigned the open space around their

1st row: National History Museum, Old Court Museum, Archeology Museum (detail), National Museum of Art2nd row: Collections Museum, Zambaccian Museum, Theodor Aman Museum, Gh. Tattarescu Museum 3rd row: Storck Museum, Romanian Peasant Museum, Astronomical Observatory (detail),