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PHOTO Garden Сomradeship Electromash

Anton Polyakov, Maxim Polyakov

The end of the world is best spent where it already happened.

English, please / Protest

Why Are the Statues Falling?

Manuela Boatcă

The statues of influential historical figures, who stand accused of racism today, have started to be toppled in America and Europe. What do we stand to learn from their collapse?

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The Exploitation on Your Plate. Romanian Workers on UK Farms During the Pandemic

Oana Țenter

The pandemic increases the risk of slave exploitation for agricultural workers - Romanians and Bulgarians are the most exposed. We spoke to workers, activists and authorities across the UK to understand the real price of food.

English, please / Coronavirus

Friends in the Time of Corona

Oana Lohan, Oana Țenter

Several house mates in London share their diaries during lockdown.

English, please / Racism

Face Against the Wall. Mother Living in Bucharest Slum Recounts Police Abuse

Delia Marinescu, Vlad Petri

After clashes between the police and a few inhabitants of the Rahova neighborhood in Bucharest, law enforcement agents are facing accusations of having abused several people in the area, including a mother and one of her children.

English, please / În lume

The Last Days of Cinema

Oana Țenter

Other colleagues who were not around today write to me: “How was it? Wish I was there”. In the bus, I post a short clip with the message on the cinema: „Stay safe and see you soon.”

English, please / Health

The Vaccine We Didn't Take

Cecilia Laslo, Wanda Hutira

How the Romanian state and I, together and in turn, botched the HPV vaccine.

English, please / Media&digital

The journalist who talks to ISIS members: “I am not fearless”

Diana Meseșan

“Sometimes we are the only witnesses”, Rukmini says. “Bearing witness to these events is important. If not, it’s as if they never happened.”

English, please / Stuff

A Brazilian Combo

Toni Marques

Why is the Amazon rainforest burning? A Brazilian explains the political underpinnings, falsehoods and manipulation behind the environmental tragedy.

English, please / Fotbal

FC ROMANIA

Oana Țenter

For the past thirteen years, an eighth league football team has been bringing together Romanian migrants and pro-Brexit Brits.

English, please / Ideas

The ‘Pregnancy Crisis’ Franchise: from the United States to Romania

Diana Meseșan, Roma Gavrilă

A pro-life movement, supported by the US and funded by local money, is developing in Romania.

English, please / LGBT

As Thyself

Diana Meseșan

Romanian peasant, Orthodox Christian and Gay. Cristi Marcu, a cantor for 20 years at the church, could check all three boxes before learning he must give up one of them.

English, please / Hoax

The Fake Nobel that Duped the Romanian Academy

Andra Matzal, Ioana Pelehatăi, Ionuț Sociu, Luiza Vasiliu, Sorina Vazelina

A Frenchman with a penchant for vampires invented a university and a gold medal, with which he tricked institutions, publications, and important intellectuals.

English, please / Cinema

Virtual Reality bringing us closer to social reality

Ana Banu

We went to Camden International Film Festival and found out how innovative technology helps us create empathy through more immersive stories.

English, please / Literature

A Brief Account of a Book Festival in Edinburgh

Cătălina Stanislav, Vlad Pojoga

Festival Report: Edinburgh International Book Festival, one of the biggest of its kind in the world.

English, please / Music

One Hour of Sun with Son Lux

Andra Matzal, Luiza Vasiliu

An hour-long talk with one of the mind-blowing band of our times, about art as work, ageing, hope and the works of music in troubled times.

English, please / Cinema

"Life is more non-linear and faster"

Vlad Odobescu

For about 15 years, Kasia and David have been building stories in which the viewer becomes an actor and is able to push the script further, as in a video game.

English, please / Brazil

A Brazilian way to disappear

Toni Marques

Brazil's oldest scientific institution, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, was destroyed by a devastating fire on a Sunday night on September 2.

English, please / Iceland

North and Low

Ioana Cîrlig

Over the course of two weeks, I met with some of my favorite Icelandic artists to learn what makes up the place’s spirit and where the appetite for life comes from in darkness.

English, please / Press

Edicola 518. Infinity in 4 Square Meters

Emilia Barbu

In Perugia, a town at the heart of Italy, a newsstand seemingly popped up out of nowhere to shake up the world.

English, please / Media&digital

John Oliver, a Discreet Superman

Luiza Vasiliu

In February 2018 I headed over the Atlantic to meet John Oliver. What I talked to him about, who’s the Brit who changed the way we watch the news and how we can (can we?) bring order to the chaos around us—find out next.

English, please / Teenagers

My Classmates Told Me I Should Die

Lina Vdovîi, Sorina Vazelina

A 12-year-old Bucharest student resorted to cutting because of her classmates. Even though they should have intervened, the teachers had no idea what to do. Bullying still is an unknown phenomenon to many of Romania’s schools.

English, please / Holocaust

“I have a strange feeling that I need to run. Maybe you know why?”

Adrian Cioflâncă

These days, we talk more about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. We talk more openly, but judeophobia is rampant again. It was probably never really gone, just well-hidden.

English, please / Cinema

Comrade Detective, Voyeurism, and the Americans

Codruța Pohrib

The Cold War is trendy. “Comrade Detective” is an experiment based on the West’s nostalgia for its very own Cold War capitalism. And it’s right on trend.