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  • Romanian students beats the French and gets maximum points at French Baccalaureat

    Romanian student Marie Renee Andreescu has received 20,35 points at the French Baccalaureat, which is more than the maximum that can be achieved, due to a certain type of calculations of different exams. The French baccalaureat is a diploma awarded by the French ministry of education after the succesful completion of highschool and graduation of…

  • Romanian priest builds house for poor children with Facebook’s help

    Florin Danu, a priest from Lada village, Teleorman, Romania, has managed to build a house for poor children thanks to Facebook. The house will be used as a school, playground and dining place for local children that are affected by poverty. The priest has been dreaming of building a house like this for quite some…

  • Romanian athlete wins European title at men’s discus

    Alin Alexandru Firfirica has won the European title at men’s discus in the European under 23 held in Tallinn, this year with a result of 60,64 m. Second place was taken by Wojciech Praczyk (Poland  with 58,96 metres) and Robert Szikszai (Hungary, 58.82 metres). On Friday, Andreea Elena Panturoiu has secured a silver medal in the triple jump competition…

  • Romanian cheese receives international recognition

    International Taste and Quality Institute from Bruxelles has awarded Catean farm’s “burduf” cheese a gold star. Several products of Catean’s farm have participated this year in the ” International Taste and Quality Institute Superior Taste Award”. Around 100 specialty chefs and someliers from around the world have blindly tasted and evaluated food products, taking into…

  • Romanians win gold, silver and bronze medals at 2015 Gwanju Summer Games

    Laura Ilie,22 from Romania, was the first one to win the gold medal in the riffle category at the Gwanju Summer Games in South Korea. The Dinamo sports team representative got 454,4 points and defeated Valentina Protasova from Russia. Silver medals were won by Soare Nicolae in the men’s 10,000 metre race, Andrei Gag in…

  • American, Spanish and Russians dancing groups perform at World Folklore Festival in Romania

    International folklore is celebrated these days (8-12 June) in Timisoara, Romania in the Park of Roses. The 26th edition gathered dancing and singing folklore groups frorm Bulgaria, Columbia, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldavia, Georgia, Russia, Spain, Serbia, U.S.A., Turkey, Hungary and Romania. The festival started with performances from “Timis” folklore dancing group and folklore singers Nicoleta Voica,…

  • Romanian fireman wins gold at 2015 World Police and Fire Games

    Fireman Iulian Pitulac, 31, from Vrancea has won the gold medal in the Martial Arts competition at World Police and Fire Games held this year in North Virginia, U.S.A. The event gathered 17,000 sportsmen from all over the world. Iulian Pitulac, who works for the Emergency Inspectorate in Vrancea, is the only Romanian competitior that…

  • Romanian students win gold, silver and bronze at the European Informatics Olympics

    Romanian students have won four medals at the Central European Informatics Olympics.  Alexandru Velea, from Cluj-Napoca won the gold, Rares-Darius Buhai from Bistrita and Valentin-Marius Harsan won silver. Andrei Popa, from Vaslui, the youngest of all, has managed to secure a bronze medal. 44 students from different countries have participated in the Central European Informatics Olympics,…

  • S.F. in Romania :)

    Gorgeous salt mine in Romania.

  • Festival that reconstitutes Roman battles celebrated in Salaj county, Romania

    Porolissum Fest was celebrated this weekend in Salaj county, Romania. The festival aims to reconstitute Roman traditions that used to be held in this area. 11 groups of people have participated in the historical reconstitution.The public was able to see gladiator fights and a siege of a Roman castra with arrows and projectiles.