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‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions?

Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal

The Guardian - UK

This Week in History: A royal divorce, a $50bn fraud, and tragedy on Christmas Island

From power struggles to global crises, explore how major events between 15 and 21 December were captured on The Independent’s front pages

The Independent UK

From Frankenstein to Putin, monsters are stalking the Venice film festival

Artistic director says monsters are ‘fil rouge’ this year, as Guillermo del Toro unveils his vision of Shelley’s classic

The Guardian - UK

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Ion Iliescu obituary

First president of Romania after the fall of the Ceaușescu regime who was later charged with crimes against humanity during the revolution

The Guardian - UK

Romania lays to rest divisive first post-communist president Ion Iliescu

Romania's first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu, was buried on Thursday amid stark divisions over his legacy. He died at 95, symbolising Romania's tumultuous transition.

Euronews

Shock poll claims Romanians are nostalgic for communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu: Who was he?

A recent survey reveals 66.2% of Romanians believe Nicolae Ceaușescu was a good leader, despite his repressive regime.

Euronews

“He mentioned how much he admired Pol Pot and Nicolae Ceaușescu for the way they could control the populace”: Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous

Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous

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Queen Elizabeth Once "Hid Behind a Bush" With Her Corgis to Avoid This "Viper" and Her Dictator Husband at Buckingham Palace

The late Queen found the dictator and his wife "so objectionable, so charmless, she had absolutely nothing to say to them."

Marie Claire

What a rich time for dramas about the 1%

With a recession looming, is now a good time to debut a show about a rich man with problems? Sadly, yes

Salon

Starmer may have weaponised the Windsors, but soft power is the royals’ great asset

Just as in the Oval Office this week, history shows the royals can be deployed to serve British interests – whether they like it or not

The Guardian - UK

How childhood trauma impacts our brains, bodies – and even our genes

In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country’s birth rate. This led to the widespread abandonment of children, who ended up in orphanages in appalling conditions where they received no care, attention or love. Though tragic, this infamous “natural experiment” has allowed us to learn…

The Conversation

The fall of communism in Romania – archive, December 1989

On 16 December 1989, an attempt by Nicolae Ceaușescu’s security forces to evict a cleric in the town of Timișoara sparked eastern Europe’s bloodiest anti-communist revolution

The Guardian - UK

The city break with £2 pints and one of the world’s best spas

Ornate architecture, storybook castles and a city brimming with historical tales

The Independent UK

TV tonight: paranoia and perils in an intense cold war drama

Spy/Master follows a dictator’s right-hand man on the run. Plus, the gripping finale of Traces. Here’s what to watch this evening

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A tailored ending for "The Regime"

Salon talks to Will Tracy about the finale of his limited series featuring Winslet as a "lovely" authoritarian

The Guardian - UK

Conservative cabinet ministers, look away now: your ‘Portillo moment’ could be on the cards

Two mega-polls suggest that the Tories are heading for a defeat more catastrophic than they experienced in 1997. What if they’re right?

The Conversation

Olympic star Nadia Comăneci was a Romanian 'hero' who defected to escape her government. What do her surveillance files reveal?

“On the night of 27–28 November 1989,” Stejărel Olaru writes, “seven people hurriedly but warily made their way towards the frontier between Romania and Hungary.”

Daily Mirror

Locals saved churches from dictator by putting them on wheels and rolling them away

Stunning churches dating back to the 16th century can be visited in Bucharest, Romania to this day after engineers hid them from Nicolae Ceaușescu beneath Soviet style apartment blocks

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Michael Dower obituary

Director general of the Countryside Commission who oversaw the creation of the National Forest

Miami Herald

Fabiola Santiago: More than ever, Cuba — and by proxy, Miami — need a change-agent like Mikhail Gorbachev

RIP, Mikhail Gorbachev, a leader who spoke, as he described it, “the language of practical politics” and ended the Cold War — albeit, not in Cuba or Miami.

Daily Mirror

Abandoned Romanian village drowned beneath toxic lake of fluorescent yellow sludge

The village inside a valley was used as a dumping ground for a nearby copper mine discovered in 1978 on the orders of the notorious communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu

The Guardian - UK

A bear in the backyard – a photo essay

In one of Europe’s last remaining wildernesses, Romania’s brown bears and the local population share an uneasy coexistence

The Guardian - UK

How US dollars put anti-abortion groups at the heart of Romanian healthcare

Buoyed by dollars and evangelical zeal, a growing number of ‘pregnancy crisis centres’ threaten to return the country to the deadly days of Ceaușescu’s ban

Manchester Evening News

Russia 'willing to sacrifice millions of lives' Ukraine President Zelensky tells Romania - full speech in English

Ukraine reminds Romania of the horrors of the Ceaușescu regime

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