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Romania seems increasingly divided between the “bad teeth alliance”, pro-government and protesting against the president Iohannis, and a massive, more numerous, happily protesting dancing flash mob who won’t take “corruption is bullshit” for an answer. What irks me is that in the international media coverage, so much is lost in translation.

A recent Op-Ed in New York Times seems to have caused a fair amount of consternation in both Romania as well as among my diaspora friends. Ion could equally be Ion Iliescu, recently green-lighted to be re-investigated in the “Mineriada” file, Adrian Nastase, the suicidal former premier and failed presidential candidate who had become the first test case of prosecutorial overreach in the case of an elite aparatchik, or even Patrick Basham, not afraid to confront the warm, fuzzy racism/scepticism/antiziganism-fuelled consensus that Romania is “doing something”.

There was a recent showdown in Oscars documentaries between Colectiv and My Octopus Teacher. I rooted for Collective and it reminded me of a long running Italian TV series from my childhood, La Piovra. Caracatita a castigat si traducerea in romana pe FataCarte.

Hotnews has previously interviewed Romanian diaspora people, which we covered, and we have also been profiling others in the diaspora ourselves. This interview is somewhat new in that the interviewee is "returned" - and we expect to be many more like him in the coming years.

Am tot amanat sa scriu despre Geoana, intrucat nu-i ceva pozitiv iar el n-o duce tocmai bine. Iata ca-n final am reusit cu chiu, cu vai, sa-mi vantur ideile pe pajistea propriului blog, m-apropii de ceea ce ar trebui sa fie finalul, cu exceptia cazului in care iese si asta prea lung si tre' sa-l mai sparg in cateva articole. Cam asta-i partea finala a raspunsului meu la articolul lui AlphaDog, dupa ce am vorbit despre despotismu' lu' Base in prima parte, am raspuns apoi punct cu punct argumentelor sale intr-a doua, si-ntr-a treia am descris Romania ideala, de care cred ca Base ne apropie mai mult.

After repeating what’s (still) irking me about #corruption and the way it’s tackled and perceived, I get to summarize the events of the past few days (since Executive Order / Ordinance 13) and provide you with my much unwanted and unneeded opinion.

Mos Craciun vine in curand, dar putini dintre noi inca mai cred in el. Adresez acest articol celor care au nevoie sa li se spuna, din cand in cand, ca daca-ti imaginezi ca tot ce zboara se mananca, esti probabil tu insuti un fazan sau curcan gustos.