Romania

Dominic Fritz came to Timisoara as a volunteer and ended up running the city that toppled Ceaușescu. Now he’s fighting the far right and the weight of history

Losing an eye at the age of just three, his misfortune bred in him a fearlessness and restlessness

Nicușor Dan, the pro-European presidential candidate, emerged victorious in the most emotional and consequential election in Romania's post-communist history

He’s the school nerd who used to hang out with football hooligans and loves Donald Trump. Now he’s on the verge of becoming Romania’s next president

No matter how the plot of this particular election thriller ends, Romanian institutions must do better in the future

Călin Georgescu is a textbook post-truth politician: a conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer, climate change denier, and moon landing sceptic

An adventurous romantic life lent almost a Zelig-like quality to the writer, constantly drawing her towards the centre of events

The residence of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu is all yours to gawp at for 65 Romanian lei

The role of Rico in Little Caesar proved as career-defining for Robinson as Frankenstein’s monster was for Boris Karloff or Dracula for Bela Lugosi

Links with British industry and French universities – through ‘rugger diplomacy’ – helped to turn Romania into a surprising hotbed of the sport

One night in 1989, the greatest gymnast in the world tried to escape from communist Romania

Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu believed that Bucharest’s churches were in the wrong place. So he simply had them moved

Salem is the King of Manele – the Middle Eastern-flavoured Romanian pop music descended from Roma folk music. But, some of his material divides audiences

The Balkan nation has emerged as an unlikely global centre of high- tech industry – and of hacking.

At a time when dictators and aircraft are making news, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s third-favourite plane is up for auction with a starting price of €25,000 (£21,500).