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Meanwhile his people had to subsist on meagre rations of basics such as sugar, flour and cooking oil, and at times just one piece of meat per person a month 1989 Revisited - Part Five The first words I write in the notebook covering my journey through Romania are: garlic, holy water, silver cross and wooden stake.

This school year, not only does Southwestern High School have a new look, the Prospectors also have a new principal.

Ana Cristea Gallery Chelsea 521 West 26th Street, 212-904-1100 October 15 - November 21, 2009 Opening: Thursday, October 15, 6 - 8 PM Web Site For its inaugural exhibition, Ana Cristea Gallery is delighted to present The Foundries of Ideology - an exhibition of new paintings by the young Hungarian artist, Zsolt Bodoni and his first solo show in New ...

During a Bucharest visit by Vice President Xi Jinping, a Chinese grant of EUR 500,000 for joint economic projects was announced.

In the middle of plunging into the Global Financial Crisis, this month, there has been a government crisis in Romania.

Representatives of all three of Bosnia's main ethnic groups have essentially rejected the package of demands and incentives proposed by senior EU and US officials ahead of Tuesday's resumption of negotiations.

RomaniaA's Prime Minister-designate Lucian Croitoru failed to win the backing of the ethnic Hungarian party yesterday, all but shattering his chances of securing parliamentary approval.

For over three weeks now, Romania has been embroiled in a political crisis that may not end before the presidential elections scheduled for November 22nd.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived in Romania on Sunday, the last stop on his European tour.

Straddling the borders of Portland, Beaverton and Tigard, is a great new place to get a taste of Eastern Europe.

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So while the rest of us are scratching out heads and feeling uncomfortably ignorant about who the 2009 Literature Nobel Prize actually is, blogger M.A Orthofer was spot on in his predictions and had even put up a page about Herta Muller .

Bucharest: Former 'Paris of East' endured disaster and dictatorship Former capital of principality of Walachia Capital of Romanian state from 1862 1977 quake killed around 1,500 people Population: 1.9 million 1930s - Rise of fascist "Iron Guard" mass movement.

Romania's senate speaker and Social Democrat leader Mircea Geoana, right, waves next to chamber of deputies speaker Roberta Anastase, from the Democrat-Liberal party, after the parliamentary no-confidence vote on October 13 2009.

Romanian-born author Herta Mueller on October 8 won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature.

''Criticism and more criticism, and such destructive criticism that one might wonder, what good are these texts?'' a secret police informer asked.

Herta Mueller, an author born in Romania who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, yesterday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature.

KATHMANDU: Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas have denounced the award of the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature to German author Herta Mueller by the Swedish Academy Thursday, saying it reflected the institution's growing bias towards the communists.

Her odds on Ladbrokes were 50/1, but Herta MA1 4ller, an ethnic German who was born in the Romanian Banat in 1953, has won the Nobel Prize for literature.

It's a curious thing that in the world at large, traditional kinds of ethnic diversity declined through the twentieth century, at least in the advanced nations.

The 2009 Nobel prize has been awarded to Herta MA1 4ller, for depicting the 'landscape of the dispossessed' with 'the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose' The winner of the 2009 Nobel prize for literature, Herta Muller.

Bulgaria and Romania are considering the construction of a joint dam on the Danube River.

The careful conservation of pre-industrial villages in Transylvania is Europe at its best, guarding the relics of its diversity Between the collapse of the Ceausescu regime in December 1989 and the spring of 1990, half a million indigenous so-called "Saxons" fled Romania for West Germany.

Social Democratic Party leader Mircea Geoana said the nine ministers resigned "in solidarity" with Dan Nica, a party member who was fired by Prime Minister Emil Boc on Monday over comments he made about potential fraud in elections scheduled for Nov.