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A curated cross-section of our publication's Romanian language version. Read up on globally noteworthy cultural personalities and societal goings-on in our corner of Eastern Europe.
English, please / War
Vadim Ghirda: “When I bring the camera to my eye, I am rid of fear”
Ioana Cîrlig
We spoke with photojournalist Vadim Ghirda about good and evil, disillusionment and hope, beauty and fear. About journalism and its increasingly complicated relationship with the truth, about the unsung heroes who make the work of war correspondents possible. About the baggage of suffering he has amassed in the 34 years that he has spent working at the heart of conflicts all over the world.
English, please / Ukraine
“People won't be coming back here anytime soon.” Ukraine’s Eastern War Front in 7 Snapshots
Larisa Kalik, Larisa Kalik
A young journalist accompanies the Ukrainian military on a war tour on the eastern front, in Avdiivka, the town that the Russians have been struggling to capture for months.
English, please / Film
Ilinca Manolache Dares
Maria Cârstian, Andrei Becheru
We spoke with actress Ilinca Manolache about the limits of theater and "Love Island", society and TikTok, misogyny and trivialized violence, but also about her role in Radu Jude's latest film, "Don't Expect Too Much From the End of the World".
English, please / Ukraine
“We Would Have Liked to Spend This Summer Differently.” Volunteers for the Ukrainian Army
Larisa Kalik, Larisa Kalik
I went to Donbas with the young Ukrainian volunteer soldiers, ate pizza in the trenches and swam in a lake - that was when we weren't trying not to step on myself and when they weren't flying drones to shoot down tanks.
English, please / Bucharest
Following Măiastra Through the Streets of Bucharest. An Interview with Timothy Stanley
Bogdan Bălan
A discussion with an American artist settled in Romania, about his favorite sculptures in Bucharest, about the life he made here, but also about his book, written from the perspective of a fictional Romanian art historian.
English, please / Food
Of Our Daily Plov
Ioana Șopov, Laurențiu Brătan
A journey through many cultures with one and the same dish - pilaf, plov, or whatever you may call it where you're from.
English, please / Ukraine
Two Ukrainian Independence Days in Romania
Ioana Pelehatăi, Volodymyr Artiukh
A Romanian journalist and a Ukrainian anthropologist compare and contrast notes on two different (yet at times strikingly similar) Ukraine Independence Day events in Romania's capital.
English, please / Activism
“We are misfits of architecture.” A Conversation with & about Forensic Architecture
Nicoleta Moise
For the past decade, Forensic Architecture have been conducting extensive investigations from around the world, with and on behalf of individuals or communities directly affected by conflict, police forces, or border regimes.
English, please / Fake news
What My Internet Looks Like, After Researching Online Fake News for 6 Years
Codruța Simina, Ioana Șopov
When was the last time you reflected on how your imagination works?
English, please / History
The Day the Queen Died
Irina Dumitrescu
I know this sounds morbid, but I have long wanted to be in London for the end of this reign.
English, please / În afara bulei
“I won't possibly see her again.” A Mother Explains How She Lost Her Daughter to the Children of the Sun Cult
Bogdan Dincă, Delia Marinescu
The mother of a current Children of the Sun member speaks about how her daughter has changed since moving to Children of Sun.
English, please / Spirituality
“I Realized I Was in a Cult.” The Children of the Sun Break the Silence
Bogdan Dincă, Delia Marinescu
The former members are accusing Adi de la Brad of sexual abuse, emotional abuse, exploitation through labor, being constrained against seeing a doctor, declaring him their children’s father, and preempting them from going to school.
English, please / War
We don’t talk about the war here
Michael Bird
I worked for over a month as a volunteer trying to help Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest, and this is what I found.
English, please / Photography
The Red Calendar Day
Mikhail Kalarashan
Photograher Mikhail Kalarashan documented Victory Day, the 9th of May, in Chișinau. Less than 200 kilometres away, air-raid sirens are heard everyday.
English, please / War
The Future According to Igor: “We Either Win or Die”
Venera Dimulescu
The story of a 26-year-old Ukrainian about war, captivity and Chernobyl.
English, please / War
"There is a war in their country." How Moldova Is Receiving Ukrainian Refugees
Andreea Câmpeanu, Delia Marinescu
We went to the Palanca border and to Chișinău, in order to write about both the people who managed to escape the bullets and those who are receiving them.
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“We Left All the Films Behind”
Ionuț Sociu, Marin Raica
They worked in film and television their entire lives, documenting stories of famine and war, traveling and filming throughout the former Soviet Union. On February 24, the war descended upon them.
English, please / War
Will Russia Invade Moldova?
Michael Bird
How, where and with what justification could Russia launch an attack?
English, please / War
What we lose and what we don't lose in Kyiv
Michael Bird
Ukraine’s capital is a memorial not only to the sacrifice of the oppressed against greater odds, but also to willpower, dynamism and revival.
English, please / War
“We're glad we can help somehow.” How Indian Students from Ukraine Found Shelter in a Romanian Village
Andreea Câmpeanu, Delia Marinescu
Indian medicine students who fled the conflict in Ukraine are hosted in a family from a southern Romanian village.
English, please / War
“You shoot me down, but I don’t fall”. Kharkiv Woman Speaks about Life under Bombs
Delia Marinescu, Pavel Dorogoy
A young woman from Kharkiv speaks about her daily life, the idea of leaving her mom behind and flee alone and the future relationship between Ukrainians and Russians.
English, please / War
"We feel real shame for what’s going on." Russian Activist Speaks out Against Putin
Ioana Pelehatăi
We spoke to a member of the Russian Pirate Party about the country's president, the war, and (dis)information on the internet