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The Romanian Cultural Institute announces the extension of the deadline for displaying the results by 14 days, in order to re-contact the members of the judging committee of the candidacy files and to carry out the procedures according to the regulation. The conditions

The research and documentary scholarships for foreign cultural journalists consist in the financial support of a one-month documentation period in Romania to carry out projects aimed at promoting the Romanian cultural phenomenon in the foreign press. Thus, ICR grants scholarships

Luni, 9 martie, ora 18. 00, Aleea Alexandru 38 Moderator: Ştefan Vianu Participanţi: Livius Ciocârlie, Iulian Băicuş, Paul Cernat, Mihai Chioveanu. Întâlnirea, organizată în parteneriat cu Fundaţia « Calea Victoriei », face parte din seria de dezbateri

În perioada 16 – 22 aprilie ICR Viena a organizat o serie de evenimente de mare interes pentru publicul austriac. Sesiunea de comunicări România 2007 – Suntem din nou europeni!, din seria programelor dedicate aderării României la UE a beneficiat de participarea

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

Zilele vieţii noastre seamănă în general una cu alta, deşi până la urmă fiecare rămâne unică: altfel n-ar exista specia Jurnalului. Sub semnul consemnării atente, dar tot indirecte, a scurgerii timpului, paginile de faţă le continuă pe cele intitulate Jurnal

from left: rundown houses on Lipscani and Mosilor, Dimbovitza river from Hasdeu bridge, street in Cotroceni Bucharest smells exquisitely during the time of lindens and rain. Vigorously soaked for a half hour, the city heals even from the stenches that make you ill. Under

Peeled off plaster, broken windows, rats scuttling at ease day and night. And above all, the filth. Complete and utter filth reigning supreme over a piece of downtown Bucharest. But also over a piece of our past. The only part still living is the sign above the door, reading

Clockwise from top left: Revolution Square, Maniu statue, Coposu bust, Hilton Athenee Palace, Kretzulescu Church, University Library, Ataturk bust, Carol I equestrian statue. Post-revolutionary administrators of the capital city have managed to turn the birth place of the

It seems the wedding gift is no longer a must in Săpînţa. When they go to the wedding in the evening, people are stirred by the fiddles and guitars. They've no more patience to sit still, they want to break their shoes dancing. Though the peasant ones have been replaced

Although it stirred the prefacing enthusiasm of enlightened spirits and brought about the awarding of quite honoring prizes, the talent of some is shadowed by the pornographic character of the books which should be put on sale in sex shops. The fact that they represent the

From the point of view of yesterday's or today's reader, it is for sure – yet again! – a matter of code: one accepts it or not. If the education and the cultural concepts we operate with intuitively tell us that certain art forms are not tolerable, that certain