Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. ... Furthermore, the Romanian Government has skillfully played its cards close to its chest in as far as comments on last year's strained political circumstances in the Re-public of Moldavia are concerned, whose communist government had repeatedly ac-cused Romania of interfering in its internal affairs. .....

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Throughout this brief paper, the three most prominent styles of architecture that can be seen in Romania's capital will be showcased. ... Romania, of all the countries who did this, stood out from the rest. A few features that distinguished Romanian communist architecture are colour, size, and utilitarian functions. ... Soon shimmering glass buildings began to fill the skyline and the Romania that we see today began to evolve. Modern Romanian architecture has a lot of Western influence in it. ...

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This essay will compare and contrast two post-communist countries, focusing on Poland, who has had a fairly successful' transition to democracy, and Romania, who shows clear signs of a complicated and uncertain transition towards democracy. ...

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Dear Sir, Madam I am writing this letter to express my interest in the Maastricht School of Management Executive MBA Program in Romania. ... In terms of professional experience, starting 2008 I had the privilege to work in Citibank Romania, a competitive and multicultural company that allowed me to put in practice the knowledge I gained as a student of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. ... Same year, I have enrolled in The Academy hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers Romania, a one year training program that provided me with valuable experience and knowledge on Romanian and internatio...

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Debate over deregulation of NCAA amateurism rules began as a result of an increasing number of reinstatement requests from schools on behalf of prospective and enrolled student-athletes. The number and types of requests indicated a desire by the membership to include these student-athletes in their ...

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Today, Efes Pilsner is enjoyed in over 30 countries worldwide, including Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Romania, Holland, Serbia, United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Japan, and other Eastern European countries. ... Efes Beverage Group started the production of beer in Romania in 1998; and in 1999, the first brewery opened up in Russia. ...

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The other countries that applied for membership include Turkey, Cyprus, Malta, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic. Of those countries, six are considered associate members of the European Union: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. ...

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Lastly, Romanian revolt took a more violent course. After a clergyman attempted to defend the rights of ethnic Hungarians residing within Romanian borders, security forces released a blazing storm of bullets into a crowd of demonstrators. ...

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According to this agreement, both Britain and Russia would have 90% dominance in Greece and Romania respectively; Russia would have predominance in Bulgaria with 75%; and in Hungary and Yugoslavia the influence of the two great powers was balanced, each having 50% share equally. ... For example, when the British foiled the attempts of seizing power by the communists in Greece, Stalin indignantly agreed with Churchill's attempts, which gave the signal that the West should not have any right of questioning any actions that would be adopted in Bulgaria and Romania. ... The polish, the Romani...

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The document called for Hungary and Yugoslavia to be split 50/50 between the Eastern and Western powers; Romania was to be split 90/10 in favour of the Soviet Union; a 75/25 split was to take place in Bulgaria again in favour of Moscow; lastly, Greece was to be split 90/10 in favour of the West. ...

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In the 1960s, Poland experienced the Stalinist era, ruled under complete dictatorship; Romania was policed under the Soviet Union, and pursued an autarchic policy; Soviet Union was the world's largest state, with a territory spanning over ten thousand kilometres. ... Poland became a social democratic country, with truly free elections held; Romania restored democracy and civil liberties of citizens, and turned towards free market economy; the Soviet Union, the formidable great nation, was dissolved! ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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The end of the WW2, saw Russia and America emerging as the two strongest allied nations. However, even before the closing stages of the war, competition between these two nations was brewing, fueled by ambitions on both sides for world domination and the opposing ideals of communism and capitalism. ...

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More than half of the early European immigrants had arrived as indentured servants, who worked for a period of years without wages in exchange for their passage to and upkeep in America. Immigrants to colonial America were welcomed because of an acute need for labor. After independence, only "free, ...

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Mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings can characterize the Cold War by two sides and their allies. The Cold War shortly followed the conference held between the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, which took place at the Black Sea resort of Yalta between th...

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Benito Mussolini was a dictator and the leader of the Italian Fascist movement. Mussolini's reign of terror, as he referred to it, failed because numerous mistakes were made on his part during his career. One of these mistakes was his agreement to form an alliance with Adolf Hitler and the German Th...

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After the war, the countryside was battered and broken looking for a reliable government to run them, and economic aid to help the post-war rebuild; which the soviet union was quick to provide as many countries such as Yugoslovakia, Romania, Lithuania, and Bulgaria had already seceded to communistic ideals. ...

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Bineinteles va astept opiniile si impresiile de calatorie fie pe adresa Suplimentul Timpul Liber, Romania Libera, Piata Presei Libere nr.1, sector 1 Bucuresti, cu mentiunea internet sau la internet@organizer.ro. ...

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Communism have existed in many countries of the world such as Italy, East Germany, France, the Union Soviet, China, Cuba, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, North Korea, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam. ...

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The Ottoman Empire was one of the greatest and most dominant civilizations of the modern world. Their society from the 1500s onward exhibited great characteristics of human creativity, optimism, and artistry. Uniting under a common religion and strong government systems, the Ottomans spread Islami...

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1. Introduction to EU Single Market One of the main tendencies characterizing today's world economy is globalization. Thus, firstly increase interstate competition for economic resource, and secondly there is a development towards interstate unions. This was the main purpose of forming the European ...

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THE EUROPEAN UNION - BRIEF HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS For centuries, Europe was the scene of frequent and bloody wars. In the period 1870 to 1945, France and Germany fought each other three times, with terrible loss of life. A number of European leaders became convinced that the only way to secu...

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Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Poland and Romania reported more emigration than immigration and in 16 other EU countries immigration outnumbered emigration. ...

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The term "Latino- is just as useless, in the sense that it accounts for many other ethnic groups other than just Latin Americans, such as Italians, French, and Romanians-any nationality which holds Latin as the basis for their spoken language. ...

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The importance of securing natural energy resources is taking center stage in the European Union's (EU) future plans. Turkey, a candidate for a full membership to EU, is located close to 70% of the world's oil and gas reserves. Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Eu...

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