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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – Bidders in Romania have spent 50,000 euros ($55,000) buying Communist memorabilia in an auction that included items belonging to the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The star lot was a Communist Party card issued to Ceausescu in 1954, when it was known as the Worker’s Party. It was sold for 2,000 […]

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – It is furniture fit for a dictator and now it’s up for sale. Twenty-five years ago, the Communist Party politburo ordered a bespoke set of rosewood, walnut and cherry wood furniture as a birthday present for former Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu. But Ceausescu never received the gift. He and his wife […]

BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) – A Romanian man accused of stealing seven masterpieces from a Dutch museum was arrested in Britain after months on the run, Romania’s Interior Ministry said Friday. “Following an exchange of information between Interpol Romania and Interpol Manchester, one of the suspects accused of the theft of several paintings in Rotterdam was […]

BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) – A Romanian who admitted stealing seven masterpieces from a Dutch museum will get a reduced sentence because he acknowledged his guilt, a local court ruled Thursday. The court accepted Radu Dogaru’s request to benefit from an article in Romania’s penal code stipulating that a sentence can be reduced by a third […]