Romania: One Town Evicts the Roma in Its Midst

Rights groups say authorities in the northwestern Romanian city of Baia Mare forcibly evicted hundreds of ethnic Roma, or Gypsy, people and relocated them to a...

Romania: Anti-Missile Interceptors to be Deployed

(BUCHAREST, Romania) — Romania's defense minister said Tuesday U.S. plans to deploy anti-missile interceptors in his country are going ahead and that Romania has...

Romania Responds to Britain’s Anti-Tourism Campaign: ‘We May Not Like Britain, but You Will Love Romania’

A Romanian newspaper has struck back with its own take on the "Anti-tourism" campaign the British government has reportedly planned to prevent an expected surge...

Painful Lessons from Romania’s Decade-Old Adoption Ban

Russia's decision Jan. 1 to end adoptions to the U.S. could have lasting effects for parents and children caught in limbo.

Romania's Government Moves to Rename the Roma

Romania's government has caused outrage among Romany — or Gypsy — communities and organizations after it asked Parliament in Bucharest to accept a proposal to...

A Mass Grave Raises Ghosts of Romania's Holocaust Past

One day in 1941, Vasile Enache was tending his cows in the forest of Vulturi, near the city of Iasi, 260 miles (420 km) northeast of Bucharest, when he heard...

ROMANIA If At First You Don't Succeed . . . One year after the revolt that toppled Ceausescu, many Romanians feel the country needs a second revolution

The same threadbare clothes on the backs and scuffed boots on the feet of the protesters, the same anger on their faces as they trudge through the winter slush...

Eve of an HIV Epidemic in Romania

Sometime past 10 p.m., on a dimly lit street north of Bucharest's Gara de Nord train station, a dozen prostitutes stake their ground in front of an abandoned...

Home Alone in Romania

In the court yard of the small house made of straw-and-clay bricks, 60-year-old Aurica Draghici washes her laundry in a wooden tub. She doesn't seem surprised by...

Romania Two Cheers for the Front Runner

A single unshaded bulb hanging from the ceiling provides the only light in Floresti's dark and musty village hall. The first half a dozen rows are occupied by...