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Lead article
Carmen Musat writes: Vasile Paraschiv was a worker who had the courage to openly protest Communism before the revolution of 1989. His recent refusal to accept a decoration offered by President Traian Basescu comes as a cold shower to Basescu supporters who decline to notice the President’s duplicity.
Politics
Ciprian Ciucu, Mihnea Blidariu, Bedros Horasangian, Alexandru Matei, Ioana Paverman, and Stefan Stoica ponder the formation of the next government and consider possible combinations among the parties recently elected to Parliament: the Social Democratic Party, the Democratic-Liberal Party, the National Liberal Party, the Conservative Party and the Democratic Union of the Magyars in Romania.
Latest
Cristian Cercel writes about ethnicity and December 1st, Romania’s National Day.
Debate
Caius Dobrescu, Mircea Anghelescu, Iulian Costache and Victor Rizescu discuss the contemporary significance of Romanian revolutionary writers associated with the revolutions of 1848.
Literature
Paul Cernat comments on fiction by young Romanian writers.
Book reviews
Ovidiu Simonca and Jerzy Pilch read Dorota Maslowka’s Alba ca Zapada si rosu bolsevic (Snow White and Russian Red, translated by Constantin Geambasu. Bucharest: Trei Publishing, 2008). Pilch’s contribution (translated by Luiza Savescu) was published in Polityka magazine, no. 37 (2367), September 14, 2002.
Cezar Gheorghe presents Goncalo M. Tavares’ Ierusalim (Jerusalem, translated by Micaela Ghitulescu. Bucharest: Humanitas, 2008).
Cezar Gheorghe presents Goncalo M. Tavares’ Ierusalim (Jerusalem, translated by Micaela Ghitulescu. Bucharest: Humanitas, 2008).
Interview
Katarzyna Surmiak-Domanska interviews Dorota Maslowska (excerpt from the interview published in the supplement ‘Wysokie obcasy’, Gazeta Wyborcza, September 27, 2002, translated by Luiza Savescu).
Sicurezza Pubblica
The Observer offers the 3rd monthly Ex-Privato supplement in collaboration with Manifesta 7, the Contemporary Art Biennial, which takes place in Bolzano, Trento and Rovereto, from July 17 through November 2.
Photo-reportage
un cristian writes about Efectul de seara (Greenhouse Effect), the first in a series of interviews featuring either a writer and an actor or a director at Green Hours jazz club. Poet Mihail Galatanu and actor Razvan Oprea sat in at Green Hours on November 27.
Opinions
Luminita Voina-Raut goes to Roger Planchot’s staging of Amedeu sau scapi de el cu greu (Amadeus, or It’s Hard to Get Rid of Him) by Eugene Ionesco, presented during the 17th annual Festival of the European Theater Union at the Bulandra Theater on November 13 and 14.
International
Ioana Filipescu goes to an exhibition of objects by of Sarah Seidmann that opened at Correr Palace in Venice, on November 4.
Arts
Theatre
Oltita Cintec writes about the International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People at the Luceafarul Theatre in Iasi, which took place between October 5 and October 10.
Oltita Cintec writes about the International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People at the Luceafarul Theatre in Iasi, which took place between October 5 and October 10.
Film
Mihai Fulger and Smaranda Schiopu comment on the 18th DaKINO Festival, which ran in Bucharest from November 25 through November 29.
Mihai Fulger and Smaranda Schiopu comment on the 18th DaKINO Festival, which ran in Bucharest from November 25 through November 29.
Visual arts
Mihai Plamadeala interviews Dan Perjovschi, who exhibits his book-objects at Galeria Posibila, from November 28 through February 8, 2009.
Mihai Plamadeala interviews Dan Perjovschi, who exhibits his book-objects at Galeria Posibila, from November 28 through February 8, 2009.
Music
Anca Florea goes to the ‘Life Is Beautiful’ Operetta Festival at the Ion Dacian National Operetta Theatre in Bucharest, which ran from November 14 through November 27.
Florian Baiculescu goes to Mihail Jora Studio for a concert by Alexandru Tomescu on October 30 and announces two concerts by the Belcea Quartet at Mihail Jora Studio on December 2 and 4.
Anca Florea goes to the ‘Life Is Beautiful’ Operetta Festival at the Ion Dacian National Operetta Theatre in Bucharest, which ran from November 14 through November 27.
Florian Baiculescu goes to Mihail Jora Studio for a concert by Alexandru Tomescu on October 30 and announces two concerts by the Belcea Quartet at Mihail Jora Studio on December 2 and 4.
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