You may have noticed or heard of demonstrations and riots on the streets of Bucharest and other Romanian cities in recent days. Will it turn out like the revolution (coup d’etat?) in 1989 that ended with the execution of Ceau?escu, or like the riots of 1990 where Ion Iliescu sent 20,000 miners to violently smash protests about the lack of forward movement?...

Today is the ten year anniversary of the World Trade Center disaster in Manhattan. As if we weren’t already aware. The somber mood sets the tone for nearly every media agency online and off throughout the modern World today. At least that’s what Americans would like to think. While it is true that this is a disaster, and a sad, memorable one at that...

It is interesting to note how the rising trends in Gold buying (speculating or hedging) in today’s marketplace is actually quite heavily related to Romania. A recent article from Spiegel Online International helps make this connection. Rosia Montana in the Transylvanian Region is a reletaively unscathed “ancient” source of this precious metal...

Question: Which Romanian government agency has unlimited budgets linked to a very old-fashioned communication strategy? We have to be honest and admit that before the weekend we were not asking this question, but after a visit to London it is now at the forefront of our minds. A member of the Bucharest Expat team spent the weekend in London catching up with old...

With the ongoing media attention to the “Debt Crisis” in the US, coupled with many Bucharestians’ “emigration” to the States we thought it fitting to publish some bits and pieces of an interesting conversation we had with a fellow expat. A brief update first however: This debt ceiling fiasco is nothing new for the US – nor is...