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“He was a weak child”
I’m roaming around Ferentari with the mother of a drug addict. “He might be dead somewhere. Maybe he found a cozy spot and never came out...
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My First Facebook Live
“You’re coming with us”, one of them says and pushes me into the van.
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“She would have died anyway“
December 18th 2013. Doctor Burnei summons the TV networks: he’s performing a surgical procedure that has never before been attempted in Romania...
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“It was an experiment“
The most famous orthopaedist in Romania experimented with an uncertified implant on a little girl born with a limp. Eleven surgical procedures...
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We want them back alive!
A youngster fumbles for a rock, grips it firmly and throws it in an effort to counter the bursts of gunfire. “Let us be. We’re students!”...
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A Gonzo Story on Digital Journalism
Objectivity is dead. It never even existed. We deluded ourselves. We’re human and weak, we always had an angle, and objectivity is the angle...
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Too poor not to smoke
Romania: where half a million penniless folks throw away a decent part of their measly income on smokes. Poor smokers ditch more cash on tobacco...
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We defend our lands and women
The Kurds in Syria want to build an egalitarian society at the border with the Islamic State
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Give God a call
An extremely thin young woman, with a rather hanging pair of breasts and a gentle gaze, pulls a piece of paper out of her pocket and unfolds...
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We’re mourning, asshole!
It’s cold. She’s rather short, donning a black handkerchief on her weary head, and she’s gracing Magheru Boulevard shouting the lyrics:...
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4000 kilometers hurdles
Normally, we could’ve cross the borders, get taxis, trains and airplanes. But the trip with the refugees was more chaotic – in the trunk...
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Poverty is a mental disorder
Special needs schools are filled with low-income children. The harsh conditions in which they were raised affects them in ways interpreted as...
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Sad Pills for Special Kids
Ten children hustle around a teenager with a mohawk, while loud voices can be heard from the other side of the door – other kids also want...
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Fantasy Land
About 120,000 people left the young Republic of Kosovo during the past months, mainly to Germany and Austria. Economic despair, political apathy,...
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Two Blondes and One “Special”
“I’m banging my head against the machines. I cannot give up gambling. I’ll go pledge my last house.” Aguy calls, he speaks quietly, I...
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283 Minutes
It’s not an actual room, rather, it’s a space which is separated from the waiting room of the ARENA centre by double-pane windows and...
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The PM’s Witnesses
The ringtone on my phone goes off screaming uniți salvăm Roșia Montană (song related to the 2013 Protests Against a Mining Project). Hello?...
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Journalist Beaten by Policemen while Investigating Police Abuse in Bucharest
[Romanian version] On Monday evening, reporter Ștefan Mako was beaten by policemen in the Old City Center of Bucharest, because he had filmed...
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The Good Bum
440km. This is what’s left of the journey. A wool blanket and a red quilt hang limp at the sides of two plastic bags carried by a man with...
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Rodion’s Dream
A musical genius has the misfortune of being born in communist Romania. He is rediscovered in the age of the Internet and turned into an underground...
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I ♥ COPPER
Here’s a simple math equation that portrays the story Seven meters of Romtelecom cable = six hundred thousand lei = three bags of ethnobotanicals...
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Bruce Lee, The King Of Sewers
In a sewer under Bucharest’s biggest train station a man covered with iron chains and tattoos sits on a matrimonial bed watching an action...
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Transnistria. The republic of torture
100 km away from Romania lies a place where justice means blackmail and torture. An undercover investigation in Tiraspol’s prisons April 1st,...
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The Second Horse Massacre
Citește varianta în română On the floor of a dilapidated stable in Botosani county, a horse collapses in a pile of dung left by the cows...
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The Emperor of Năvodari
In some Romanian towns, when the mayor is caught stealing, citizens take to the streets to defend him from justice. I have entered the world...
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All the objects are blessed
A gold-embroidered mask eyeballs me from a coffin. On top it has a shiny cross over a crimson robe from which a vine with golden thread thrives....
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The village is shaking
There’s an earthquake on command! On commaaaaand! Wait, don’t shut me up… ON COMMAAAAND! THE EARTHQUAKE IS ON COMMAAAAND! A...
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Let’s Build Romania’s New Journalism
Over the last month we’ve met many romanians disappointed with today’s news media. They worried about the future and asked themselves:...
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Cristina’s street
It’s a Sunday in May and parishioners of a church in central Bucharest huddle in the shadows on the sidewalks that lead them home. Some cast...
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The amusement park within the diamond factory
Elena Ceaușescu sits around lagging at the Central Committee and throws rather thick gazes at the jar perched up on her husband’s desk. A...