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Anti-cuts protests push Romania PM out [Feb 08, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned on Monday, joining a list of European leaders felled by fury at the kind of spending cuts that prompted weeks of mass protests in Bucharest against IMF-backed austerity. Twenty-two years after they overthrew communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians are the second-poorest people in the EU, earning just a fraction of neighbors ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Forum Theatre?s ?Mad Forest?: Smart, absorbing look at communist Romania [Oct 04, 2011] Big Brother is watching ? or, at least, Nicolae Ceausescu is. The stony gaze of Romania?s long-reigning communist dictator can be felt in Forum Theatre?s smart, absorbing production of Caryl Churchill?s ?Mad Forest.? Director Michael Dove has shrewdly given an in-the-round staging to this 1990 work about the Romanian revolution, planting Churchill?s politically aware and sometimes ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Forum Theatre?s ?Mad Forest?: Smart, absorbing look at communist Romania [Oct 04, 2011] Big Brother is watching ? or, at least, Nicolae Ceausescu is. The stony gaze of Romania?s long-reigning communist dictator can be felt in Forum Theatre?s smart, absorbing production of Caryl Churchill?s ?Mad Forest.? Director Michael Dove has shrewdly given an in-the-round staging to this 1990 work about the Romanian revolution, planting Churchill?s politically aware and sometimes ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania to promote Ceausescu tourist trail [Aug 25, 2011] BUCHAREST (AFP) - Tourists travelling to Romania will soon be able to follow the trail of former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, tourist minister Elena Udrea said Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania to promote Ceausescu tourist trail [Aug 21, 2011] Tourists travelling to Romania will soon be able to follow the trail of former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, tourist minister Elena Udrea said Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania to promote Ceausescu tourist trail [Aug 17, 2011] BUCHAREST (AFP) - Tourists travelling to Romania will soon be able to follow the trail of former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, tourist minister Elena Udrea said Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian presidential adviser resigns after revelations she was linked to secret police [Dec 31, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - A presidential adviser has resigned after it emerged she made a pact to spy for the notorious Securitate secret police of late Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. [via YahooNews] More >>

Thousands gather for funeral of Romanian poet [Nov 07, 2010] BUCHAREST, Romania - Thousands of Romanians have gathered for the funeral of poet Adrian Paunescu whose poetry struck a chord despite odes he wrote to late Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. [via YahooNews] More >>

Exhumed body in Romania is ?Nicolae Ceausescu [Nov 04, 2010] DNA tests confirmed Romania's late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was buried two decades ago in a Bucharest grave, forensic experts said on Wednesday, lifting lingering doubt over the ruler's burial place. [via YahooNews] More >>

DNA Test Confirm Bodies Of Romanian Communists [Nov 03, 2010] Forensic experts said on Wednesday that DNA tests confirmed Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was buried in a grave in Bucharest. Ceausescu ruled Romania from 1965 until he and his wife Elena were captured and shot by a firing squad on Christmas Day in 1989, which marked the fall of communism in the southeast European country. The execution took place at an army base near the town of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

DNA shows remains are Romania ex-dictator Ceausescu [Nov 03, 2010] DNA tests confirmed Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was buried in a grave in Bucharest, forensic experts said on Wednesday, lifting doubt over the ruler's burial place. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania exhumes remains of ex-dictator Ceausescu [Jul 21, 2010] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The graves of Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were dug up Wednesday, some 20 years after their deaths, to check if they were truly buried there, their son-in-law said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania exhumes remains of ex-dictator Ceausescu [Jul 21, 2010] The graves of Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were dug up Wednesday, some 20 years after their deaths, to check if they were truly buried there, their son-in-law said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania exhumes remains of ex-dictator Ceausescu [Jul 21, 2010] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The graves of Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were dug up on Wednesday to check whether they were truly buried there, their son-in-law said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bodies of Romania's Ceausescu and wife exhumed [Jul 21, 2010] Bucharest - The remains of the Romanian Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were exhumed from their graves in Bucharest Wednesday morning in order to confirm their identities. [via YahooNews] More >>

Remains of Romanian ex-dictator Ceausescu exhumed [Jul 21, 2010] Source: Reuters BUCHAREST, July 21 (Reuters) - The graves of Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were dug up on Wednesday to check whether they were truly buried there, their son- ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Remains of Romanian ex-dictator Ceausescu exhumed [Jul 21, 2010] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The graves of Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were dug up on Wednesday to check whether they were truly buried there, their son-in-law said. [via YahooNews] More >>