Monthly Archives: February 2016
FILM: The GOPOS
BOOK: In Europe’s Shadow
In Europe’s Shadow
Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
“In Europe’s Shadow is a masterful work of important history, analysis and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe. I learned something new on every page. Kaplan is a master.” –Tom Brokaw
BUSINESS: Memory Lane
Don’t tell Lenin: making money from communist nostalgia
Meanwhile, Romanian business reporter Moise Guran says that older people are happy to buy products from the communist era, or inspired by the communist era, not because they miss that form of government and society but because it reminds them of their childhood.
EYE IN THE SKY: Timișoara
TEDxBucharest: The “Ia”, a storyteller for our country