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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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Will Russia Invade Moldova?
Michael Bird
How, where and with what justification could Russia launch an attack?
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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.
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“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.
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“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.
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"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
English, please / Război în Ucraina
“Your president is bombing your relatives”. Moscow Dispatch with a Russian Journalist
Constantin Cojocaru, Delia Marinescu, Loreta Isac Cojocaru
A Russian journalist speaks about propaganda, media censorship and solidarity with Ukraine.
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Every Place Has Everything You Need
Mikhail Kalarashan
Photographer Mikhail Kalarashan is documenting the life of a single mother, a refugee from Eastern Ukraine.
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PHOTO No Way Back: What a Refugee Camp in Moldova Looks Like
Mikhail Kalarashan, Mikhail Kalarashan
Ukrainian war refugees have started arriving in Moldova and a camp has been set up for them in the country's southernmost village.
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This Is What Solidarity Looks Like at a Romania-Ukraine Checkpoint
Ionuț Sociu, Marin Raica
“You cannot imagine what it’s like on the other side,” says Lili, a Ukrainian woman who entered Romania on foot with her son.
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The War, as Seen from a Market on the Romania-Ukraine Border
Ionuț Sociu, Marin Raica
We set out through the villages lining the border, in order to see what the locals have to say about the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and to meet the Ukrainian Hutsuls in the mountainous regions of Bukovina.
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“No One Has Ever Applauded Me Before”
Delia Marinescu, Ehsan Ghoreishi
How a heterosexual, Roma man from a traditional community in Ploiești, father of three, came to play the lead in a film about gay love.
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„I Became a Prisoner in my own House”
Andrei Nicolescu, Delia Marinescu
I tried to help an Afghan engineer get out of her country and I failed. However, I did manage to get her story across the border.
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The Romanians in the U.S. who are still fighting Communism
Delia Marinescu, Oana Țenter
How politics and religion intersect in the Romanian Christian-Conservative community from Phoenix, Arizona.
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Beautiful Means Thin. Thin as Can Be.
Simina Popescu
For as long as I can remember, I've been ashamed by how I look. And for nearly ten years, I've been oscillating between anorexia and bulimia.
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Dumitru Dan, the Legendary Romanian Globetrotter that Never Was
Andrei Becheru, Ionuț Sociu
Why do we close our eyes to the facts when we’re told a beautiful story about touring the world on foot, in traditional sandals?
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At Home with the Children of the Sun
Bogdan Dincă, Delia Marinescu
People tired of the din of big city life go to live in an alternative community in Romania’s Apuseni Mountains. Alongside the quiet of meditation, they are served conspiracy theories.
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Good. Very Good. Better.
Oana Țenter, Ana Maria Dudu
I have no clear ambitions in life, I am convinced that the idea of success is relative and that the formulas for happiness are narrow. Whence, however, the compulsive need for more and better, which grinds me down, but also exalts me? And what is its price?
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Cugir. Echoes of the Revolution
Ioana Cîrlig, Venera Dimulescu
In the late afternoon of 21st of December 1989, in Cugir, public institutions were burning to the ground. How did the smallest city to rise up in the Revolution defeat the established dictatorship in just one day?