Bucharest
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A city in Europe: Nostalgia for Bucharest's golden age
13 April 2011167 Dilema Veche Bucharest -
Romania: The confiscated revolution
21 December 200925 România libera Bucharest -
Romania: Little Beijing, in Bucharest
18 September 2009PresseuropCotidianul
Nicknamed "Little Paris", the Romanian capital is getting a little uglier every day, carved up by building sites that are as mammoth as they are meaningless. But some parts of the town have retained their charm, and it wouldn’t take much to give the city a human face. The architect Teodor Frolu reports. 
On 21 December 1989, Nicolae Ceauşescu was booed during a speech to an assembled crowd – and then ousted in the hours that followed. 20 years later, we still don’t know exactly what happened in the Romanian revolution. One thing is certain though: a handful of Communists capitalised on the ensuing bloodshed to take and consolidate power.