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How childhood trauma impacts our brains, bodies – and even our genes

In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country’s birth rate. This led to the widespread abandonment of children, who ended up in orphanages in appalling conditions where they received no care, attention or love. Though tragic, this infamous “natural experiment” has allowed us to learn…

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The fall of communism in Romania – archive, December 1989

On 16 December 1989, an attempt by Nicolae Ceaușescu’s security forces to evict a cleric in the town of Timișoara sparked eastern Europe’s bloodiest anti-communist revolution

The Guardian - UK

The city break with £2 pints and one of the world’s best spas

Ornate architecture, storybook castles and a city brimming with historical tales

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TV tonight: paranoia and perils in an intense cold war drama

Spy/Master follows a dictator’s right-hand man on the run. Plus, the gripping finale of Traces. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

A tailored ending for "The Regime"

Salon talks to Will Tracy about the finale of his limited series featuring Winslet as a "lovely" authoritarian

Salon

Conservative cabinet ministers, look away now: your ‘Portillo moment’ could be on the cards

Two mega-polls suggest that the Tories are heading for a defeat more catastrophic than they experienced in 1997. What if they’re right?

The Guardian - UK

‘Gina had to clean up’: highlights of the Hancock royalties case so far

From bitter letters to dealings with dictators, here’s the highlights so far from mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s latest court case.

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Olympic star Nadia Comăneci was a Romanian 'hero' who defected to escape her government. What do her surveillance files reveal?

“On the night of 27–28 November 1989,” Stejărel Olaru writes, “seven people hurriedly but warily made their way towards the frontier between Romania and Hungary.”

The Conversation

Locals saved churches from dictator by putting them on wheels and rolling them away

Stunning churches dating back to the 16th century can be visited in Bucharest, Romania to this day after engineers hid them from Nicolae Ceaușescu beneath Soviet style apartment blocks

Daily Mirror

Michael Dower obituary

Director general of the Countryside Commission who oversaw the creation of the National Forest

The Guardian - UK

Fabiola Santiago: More than ever, Cuba — and by proxy, Miami — need a change-agent like Mikhail Gorbachev

RIP, Mikhail Gorbachev, a leader who spoke, as he described it, “the language of practical politics” and ended the Cold War — albeit, not in Cuba or Miami.

Miami Herald

Abandoned Romanian village drowned beneath toxic lake of fluorescent yellow sludge

The village inside a valley was used as a dumping ground for a nearby copper mine discovered in 1978 on the orders of the notorious communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu

Daily Mirror

A bear in the backyard – a photo essay

In one of Europe’s last remaining wildernesses, Romania’s brown bears and the local population share an uneasy coexistence

The Guardian - UK

How US dollars put anti-abortion groups at the heart of Romanian healthcare

Buoyed by dollars and evangelical zeal, a growing number of ‘pregnancy crisis centres’ threaten to return the country to the deadly days of Ceaușescu’s ban

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Russia 'willing to sacrifice millions of lives' Ukraine President Zelensky tells Romania - full speech in English

Ukraine reminds Romania of the horrors of the Ceaușescu regime

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