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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.

English, please / Women

“Refusing any kind of relationship with men just felt powerful”. Inside South Korea’s 4B Movement

Delia Marinescu

In South Korea, a radical feminist movement called 4B tries to completely reshape patriarchy by rejecting any kind of relationships with men. What made thousands of women make this life changing decision and what consequences does it have within Korean society?

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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 / 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 / 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 / Actors

That’s Not How We Pass This Class, Alexandru!

Adi Bulboacă, Ionuț Dulămiță

Do you know who Alexandru Potocean is? He’s one of the most respected young Romanian actors. We sat down for beers and I wrote his story.

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 / 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 / Holocaust

In Iași, an Art Exhibition Awakens the City’s Sleeping Giant

Luiza Vasiliu

I attended the first collective contemporary art exhibition about the Holocaust in Romania.

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 / Brâncuși

The Origins of the Cult of Brâncuși. An Interview with Alexandra Croitoru

Luiza Vasiliu

Who is Brancusi? Why is he among us? When did his reception go from being strictly aesthetic to the emergence of a genuine cult? What did communists believe about Brancusi? What do you think?

English, please / Stuff

Living in Bucharest: A How-to

Ioana Pelehatăi

Bucharest Housing Stories explains the business of living in the capital, from the ghetto to luxury villas, via documentaries and anthropological research.

English, please / Technology

In Search of Lost Time on Facebook

Andy Sinboy, Luiza Vasiliu

I procrastinate because I feel like I can’t start anything good when I am not the world’s happiest woman. Surely, I will be one tomorrow. Tomorrow, everyone will be happy, there will be no wars, and the articles will write themselves.

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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Can I buy clothes without feeling guilty? The answer: second-hand

George Herlaș, Andra Mureșan, Claudia Ungureanu, Mădălina Moroșanu

English, please / Istorie

Roman Blood

Philip O'Ceallaigh, Simina Popescu

An Irish writer follows the history of Trajan's Column along the ideological waves which have shaped the idea that Romanians are a Latin people, which must be „purified” at all costs. 

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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?

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.

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In Romania and Ukraine, the Danube Delta Is Hurting. Can We Do Anything to Heal It?

Viktoriia Hubareva, Oana Filip, Ioana Cîrlig

After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Danube Delta habitat became threatened by the war and the increased naval traffic it brought to the region. This is the story of that impact, but also of the solutions that people on both the Ukrainian and Romanian sides of the Delta are working on to protect this area.

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.

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From Crime to Community: The Social Reuse of Confiscated Assets in Italy, Spain and Romania

Victor Ilie, Natalie Sclippa, Paolo Valenti, Álvaro García, Nacho Gallello, Luiza Vasiliu

From crime to community: the social reuse of confiscated assets is a cross-border investigation by Lavialibera (Italy), Scena9 (Romania) and Maldita.es (Spain) that explores reuse practices in the three countries highlighting their impact, challenges, and possible solutions.

English, please / Visual arts

A Brain in an Art Museum

Andra Matzal, George Popescu, Sorina Vazelina

I tried to find out what happens in my brain when I look at a painting.So I found out that artists would be the first neuroscientists

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?