Tag: Bucharest

Book Review: ‘The Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs’

May 23, 2023
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In his follow up to his incredible debut, “The Bucharest Dossier,” William Maz takes the reader on an adventure back to Bucharest a few years after the dismantling of the USSR, the fall of communism, and Romania’s Christmas Revolution. “The Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs” is the second in the series, of which,…

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Beautiful Bucharest: An Overlooked European Capital Worth Exploring

February 27, 2022
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The upheavals of 1989 are now a long time ago, but walking down that street in the heart of the capital, Theresa relived it all, like yesterday. Unlike some revolutions across Eastern Europe, the uprising in Romania wasn’t peaceful. Over there, she says, pointing to a balcony, that’s where Ceausescu made his last speech. The…

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Fire at Romanian COVID-19 Hospital Kills Seven People

October 2, 2021
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BUCHAREST—Seven people died on Friday when a fire broke out in a Romanian intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients, officials said, the country’s third deadly hospital fire in less than a year. Video footage showed patients jumping out of windows from the hospital’s lower levels and firefighters carrying people out. The country’s emergency response unit…

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US Black Hawk Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing in Downtown Bucharest

July 15, 2021
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BUCHAREST—A Black Hawk helicopter belonging to the U.S. military made an emergency landing on a Bucharest street on Thursday, tearing down two public street lights and stopping traffic but making no casualties. The helicopter was part of a group of six which were rehearsing ahead of events to mark Romanian Air Force day and the…

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