This undated photo provided by Juan Carlos Arévalo shows Katherine Verdery, an American anthropologist and professor. Verdery's memoir "My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File" ...

Like many people with dreams of coming to America, Anastasia Beverly Hills founder Anastasia Soare believed that this was where she wanted to make her mark. “This is the country that it doesn’t matter ...

On Dec. 1, 1989, Romania’s Nadia Comăneci, winner of five Olympic gold medals and the first gymnast in history to score a perfect 10, sat opposite an official in the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria, ...

About 75% of Romanian employees say that work plays an important role in their lives, but is not their life’s main purpose.

BUCHAREST, Romania, May 10 (UNHCR) - Jean-Louis Kialoungou's love affair with Romania began before he even arrived here in the mid-1990s, and over the years the Congolese refugee has become more ...

TIMISOARA, Romania, July 16 (UNHCR) - As a child, Saad* had the dreams that millions of children share - at first he wanted to become a pilot and then a professional football player. But the war in ...

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There were, so far, three key stages in the history of Jiu Valley, a region nestled between mountain ranges in southwestern Transylvania in the heart of Romania. First, it was a remote, scarcely ...

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