Topic: Bucharest
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top defense body approved a plan by Washington on Thursday to deploy interceptor missiles in the Black Sea state as part of a missile shield to protect Europe, President Traian Basescu said. The announcement came unexpectedly and Basescu gave few details on the project. But it appeared to be part of the revamped approach taken by ...
Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is also the country?s largest city. With a population that tops two million, no other city in the nation comes close to Bucharest in scope and scale and, as a result, it has become Romania?s cultural, artistic, and financial epicenter. Bucharest?s economical prowess extends beyond the country?s borders, though, making it ...
The late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was deceived by his advisers and still believed Romanians adored him hours before his overthrow, his only surviving child said Wednesday in a rare interview two decades after the fall of the regime. Valentin Ceausescu described his father as removed ...
Twenty years after his execution by firing squad, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu still attracts the tourists despite lingering memories of his despotic regime. Nowhere is that so marked as at the grandiose palace in central Bucharest that he had built at enormous human and financial cost to his long-suffering subjects. Now Romania's top attraction for foreign tourists, the House ...
