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  • Sports Club

    Sports Club

    The Romanian football championship
    resumes at the end of this week with the matches of its 22nd leg. The
    regular football season in Romania includes 30 legs and according to the
    Professional Football League is due to end on March 11th. It will be
    followed by the play-off and play-out stages. The play-off stage involves the
    participation of the first six sides in the ranking and includes 10 legs. The
    sides from the 7th to the 16th position will be playing
    in the play-out stage which has 9 legs.




    The side on the 1st
    position in the play-off stage is qualified for the Champions League’s
    preliminaries whereas the second one will be playing in the preliminaries of
    the Europa Conference League.




    Three sides will be vying for the
    second place in the Conference League. These are the first two elevens in the
    play-out stage and the winner will be playing the side on the third position in
    the play-off. The winner of Romania’s Football Cup will be also playing in the
    Conference League. The football sides to demote to the second domestic league
    will also be from the play-offs section of the football championships. The
    sides on the 9th and 10th positions will automatically demote
    whereas the teams ranking 7th and 8th will be playing tie
    matches against the second leaguers ranking third and fourth.




    Farul Constanța is presently
    topping the table with 45 points followed by the en-titre champions, CFR Cluj with
    a point less. FCSB, Rapid Bucharest and Universitatea Craiova come next, each with
    38 points. The sixth side in the competition’s play-off stage is Sepsi Sfântu
    Gheorghe with 32 points.




    The 22nd leg of the domestic
    football championship kicks off on Friday with two games: Universitatea Cluj versus
    FC Voluntari and Rapid against Sepsi. On Saturday, Petrolul Ploiești plays the
    local side of Mioveni, while Universitatea Craiova is up against FC Botoșani on
    the latter’s home turf. On Sunday, FC U Craiova is taking on UTA Arad in a home
    match, while in Sibiu, local side FC Hermannstadt plays FCSB. The leg ends on
    Monday when in Ploiesti, southern Romania, Chindia Târgoviște plays FC Argeș, while
    Ovidiu, on the Black Sea coast, will see the leg’s most important match
    pitching Farul Constanța against CFR Cluj.


    (bill)

  • Sports Club

    Sports Club

    The Romanian football championship
    resumes at the end of this week with the matches of its 22nd leg. The
    regular football season in Romania includes 30 legs and according to the
    Professional Football League is due to end on March 11th. It will be
    followed by the play-off and play-out stages. The play-off stage involves the
    participation of the first six sides in the ranking and includes 10 legs. The
    sides from the 7th to the 16th position will be playing
    in the play-out stage which has 9 legs.




    The side on the 1st
    position in the play-off stage is qualified for the Champions League’s
    preliminaries whereas the second one will be playing in the preliminaries of
    the Europa Conference League.




    Three sides will be vying for the
    second place in the Conference League. These are the first two elevens in the
    play-out stage and the winner will be playing the side on the third position in
    the play-off. The winner of Romania’s Football Cup will be also playing in the
    Conference League. The football sides to demote to the second domestic league
    will also be from the play-offs section of the football championships. The
    sides on the 9th and 10th positions will automatically demote
    whereas the teams ranking 7th and 8th will be playing tie
    matches against the second leaguers ranking third and fourth.




    Farul Constanța is presently
    topping the table with 45 points followed by the en-titre champions, CFR Cluj with
    a point less. FCSB, Rapid Bucharest and Universitatea Craiova come next, each with
    38 points. The sixth side in the competition’s play-off stage is Sepsi Sfântu
    Gheorghe with 32 points.




    The 22nd leg of the domestic
    football championship kicks off on Friday with two games: Universitatea Cluj versus
    FC Voluntari and Rapid against Sepsi. On Saturday, Petrolul Ploiești plays the
    local side of Mioveni, while Universitatea Craiova is up against FC Botoșani on
    the latter’s home turf. On Sunday, FC U Craiova is taking on UTA Arad in a home
    match, while in Sibiu, local side FC Hermannstadt plays FCSB. The leg ends on
    Monday when in Ploiesti, southern Romania, Chindia Târgoviște plays FC Argeș, while
    Ovidiu, on the Black Sea coast, will see the leg’s most important match
    pitching Farul Constanța against CFR Cluj.


    (bill)

  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    Romania has two representatives
    in the quarter finals of the BC Women’s Boxing Championships in Budva, Montenegro.
    In the round of 16 on Saturday, Claudia Nechita secured a 5-0 win against
    Mariana Basanet of Ukraine. Ranking sixth in the Tokyo Olympics, Nechita will
    be taking on Michaela Walsh of Ireland in the quarters on Tuesday. In the round
    of 16 of the 60 kilogram category Loredana Marin of Romania took revenge against
    German challenger Jenin Zeynab Heck. We recall the Romanian lost to Heck in
    Croatia in March. Marina has this time secured a clear five-point win and will
    be up against Donjeta Sadiku of Kosovo in the semifinals.

    The WTA 250 tennis tournament,
    the most important annual competition of this kind hosted by Romania, ended in
    Cluj on Sunday with the victory of Russian challenger Ana Blinkova who outperformed
    Italian Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 3-6, 5-2.

    Romania’s women handballers Rapid Bucharest ended in a
    30-all draw their away game against Montenegrin side Buducnost Podgorica in the
    Champions League group B. Marta Lopez Herrero and Sorina Grozav scored most of
    the goals for Rapid Bucharest, each 7. Hungarian side Győr ranks first in the
    group with 8 points. Rapid is second with the same number of points, but with a
    smaller goal average. On Sunday, in the sixth leg Rapid will be playing at home
    Norwegian side Storhamar.




    CSM Bucharest remains unbeaten in the Champions League. On Sunday
    the Romanian vice-champions secured a 40-15 home win against Czech side Banik
    Most in a match in which Cristina Neagu scored most of the goals. CSM ranks
    second in the group with 9 points, like Bietigheim of Germany and on Saturday
    they will be playing Vipers Kristiansand of Norway in an away game.




    In men’s handball, Romania secured a 34-26 win against the
    national side of Ukraine, in the fourth group of the European Championships.
    Denis Grigoras was the best Romanian player with nine goals scored. Romania
    comes second in the group after Austria and is followed by Ukraine and the
    Faeroe islands. The first two sides in the preliminaries will qualify for the
    final tournament together with the best four sides on the third positions.






    Last weekend saw the football
    matches counting towards the 14th leg of the Romanian Superleague.
    On Friday in Pitesti, local side FC Arges and FC Voluntari ended in a goaless
    draw their game, while in Medias, central Romania, Rapid Bucharest clinched a 2-0 win against Hermannstadt.






    On Saturday, FC Botosani obtained
    a 1-0 win against FCU Craiova. In Ovidiu, southern Romania, local side Farul
    Constanta secured a 2-0 win against Universitatea Cluj. In the day’s last game,
    Universitatea Craiova obtained a 2-1 home win against Petrolul Ploiești. In the
    first match on Sunday, Chindia Targoviste outperformed Mioveni 1-0 after which,
    in Bucharest FCSB defeated UTA Arad 2-0. Farul ranks first in the standings
    with 33 points followed by Rapid Bucharest with 28.




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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    Romania has two representatives
    in the quarter finals of the BC Women’s Boxing Championships in Budva, Montenegro.
    In the round of 16 on Saturday, Claudia Nechita secured a 5-0 win against
    Mariana Basanet of Ukraine. Ranking sixth in the Tokyo Olympics, Nechita will
    be taking on Michaela Walsh of Ireland in the quarters on Tuesday. In the round
    of 16 of the 60 kilogram category Loredana Marin of Romania took revenge against
    German challenger Jenin Zeynab Heck. We recall the Romanian lost to Heck in
    Croatia in March. Marina has this time secured a clear five-point win and will
    be up against Donjeta Sadiku of Kosovo in the semifinals.

    The WTA 250 tennis tournament,
    the most important annual competition of this kind hosted by Romania, ended in
    Cluj on Sunday with the victory of Russian challenger Ana Blinkova who outperformed
    Italian Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 3-6, 5-2.

    Romania’s women handballers Rapid Bucharest ended in a
    30-all draw their away game against Montenegrin side Buducnost Podgorica in the
    Champions League group B. Marta Lopez Herrero and Sorina Grozav scored most of
    the goals for Rapid Bucharest, each 7. Hungarian side Győr ranks first in the
    group with 8 points. Rapid is second with the same number of points, but with a
    smaller goal average. On Sunday, in the sixth leg Rapid will be playing at home
    Norwegian side Storhamar.




    CSM Bucharest remains unbeaten in the Champions League. On Sunday
    the Romanian vice-champions secured a 40-15 home win against Czech side Banik
    Most in a match in which Cristina Neagu scored most of the goals. CSM ranks
    second in the group with 9 points, like Bietigheim of Germany and on Saturday
    they will be playing Vipers Kristiansand of Norway in an away game.




    In men’s handball, Romania secured a 34-26 win against the
    national side of Ukraine, in the fourth group of the European Championships.
    Denis Grigoras was the best Romanian player with nine goals scored. Romania
    comes second in the group after Austria and is followed by Ukraine and the
    Faeroe islands. The first two sides in the preliminaries will qualify for the
    final tournament together with the best four sides on the third positions.






    Last weekend saw the football
    matches counting towards the 14th leg of the Romanian Superleague.
    On Friday in Pitesti, local side FC Arges and FC Voluntari ended in a goaless
    draw their game, while in Medias, central Romania, Rapid Bucharest clinched a 2-0 win against Hermannstadt.






    On Saturday, FC Botosani obtained
    a 1-0 win against FCU Craiova. In Ovidiu, southern Romania, local side Farul
    Constanta secured a 2-0 win against Universitatea Cluj. In the day’s last game,
    Universitatea Craiova obtained a 2-1 home win against Petrolul Ploiești. In the
    first match on Sunday, Chindia Targoviste outperformed Mioveni 1-0 after which,
    in Bucharest FCSB defeated UTA Arad 2-0. Farul ranks first in the standings
    with 33 points followed by Rapid Bucharest with 28.




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  • Sports Flash

    Sports Flash

    Romanian David Popovici on
    Wednesday walked away with gold from the 200 meter freestyle race of the World
    Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru. Popovici ended the race in 46
    seconds and 18 hundredths, a new record for the aforementioned competition. It
    was a great summer for the Romanian swimmer who reaped four gold medals in the
    200 meter freestyle races of the European and world championships for juniors
    and senior swimmers. The medal he won on
    Wednesday was the second for David in Lima, after that in the 4×100 meter
    freestyle race.






    Farul Constanţa and Rapid
    Bucureşti are putting more distance between them and the rest of the teams in
    the Romanian Football Super-league. After the eighth leg this week, the gap
    between the two sides and the rest of the group rose up to four points. Let’s now
    have a look at the leg’s main results. On Tuesday, CS Mioveni versus UTA Arad ended
    in a one-all draw. Then in Târgu Jiu, southern Romania, FC U Craiova secured a
    1-0 win against Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. In the day’s third game, Rapid obtained
    a 1-0 home win against Universitatea Cluj.

    On Wednesday in Ploieşti, local
    side Petrolul defeated Chindia Târgovişte 3-2, while in Cluj, western Romania,
    the local team CFR obtained 4-0 win against FC Voluntari. In Ovidiu on the
    Romanian Black Sea coast, Farul Constanţa won their game against FCSB, 3-1. In
    the Superleague’s ranking, after Farul and Rapid, each with 18 points, next
    comes FC Argeş with 14. Friday will see the first two matches, in the in the
    Superleague’s ninth leg, when in Sfantu Gheorghe local side Sepsi pays FC
    Mioveni and then Universitatea Cluj on their own turf will be taking on FC U
    Craiova.




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  • Sports Flash

    Sports Flash

    Romanian David Popovici on
    Wednesday walked away with gold from the 200 meter freestyle race of the World
    Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru. Popovici ended the race in 46
    seconds and 18 hundredths, a new record for the aforementioned competition. It
    was a great summer for the Romanian swimmer who reaped four gold medals in the
    200 meter freestyle races of the European and world championships for juniors
    and senior swimmers. The medal he won on
    Wednesday was the second for David in Lima, after that in the 4×100 meter
    freestyle race.






    Farul Constanţa and Rapid
    Bucureşti are putting more distance between them and the rest of the teams in
    the Romanian Football Super-league. After the eighth leg this week, the gap
    between the two sides and the rest of the group rose up to four points. Let’s now
    have a look at the leg’s main results. On Tuesday, CS Mioveni versus UTA Arad ended
    in a one-all draw. Then in Târgu Jiu, southern Romania, FC U Craiova secured a
    1-0 win against Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. In the day’s third game, Rapid obtained
    a 1-0 home win against Universitatea Cluj.

    On Wednesday in Ploieşti, local
    side Petrolul defeated Chindia Târgovişte 3-2, while in Cluj, western Romania,
    the local team CFR obtained 4-0 win against FC Voluntari. In Ovidiu on the
    Romanian Black Sea coast, Farul Constanţa won their game against FCSB, 3-1. In
    the Superleague’s ranking, after Farul and Rapid, each with 18 points, next
    comes FC Argeş with 14. Friday will see the first two matches, in the in the
    Superleague’s ninth leg, when in Sfantu Gheorghe local side Sepsi pays FC
    Mioveni and then Universitatea Cluj on their own turf will be taking on FC U
    Craiova.




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  • June 25, 2019 UPDATE

    June 25, 2019 UPDATE

    PARTNERSHIP
    Romania intends to put into
    practice by the end of next year as many Eastern Partnership objectives as
    possible including energy and digital connectivity, participants in a business
    forum staged by the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest on Tuesday said. The event,
    held under Romania’s EU presidency, involved the participation of government
    officials and representatives of the EU business environment as well as from
    Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
    Over 20 events have been staged during Romania’s mandate at the helm of the
    European Union with a view to bringing significant progress in the relation
    between Eastern Partnership countries and the EU members.












    FLAG
    On the National Flag Day on Wednesday, Romania’s Defence Ministry is staging in
    major cities across the country a series of public events devoted to the
    national flag. The National Flag Day, on June 26th was established
    in 1998 to mark the moment during the Revolution of 1848, when the tricolor was
    adopted as a national symbol.










    JUSTICE Romania’s government would no longer issue emergency ordinances
    in the field of justice, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila announced on Tuesday also
    adding the citizens’ opinion would be respected. The Prime Minister went on to
    say that any legislative amendment in this field must be subjected to
    transparent debates together with professional organizations. In a report
    published on Monday, the Venice Commission recommended that the Romanian
    government drastically limit the use of emergency ordinances in justice and seriously
    reconsider the need for setting up a special section for the investigation of magistrates,
    its institutional structure and functioning principles.










    GAMES Romanian table tennis players, Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs
    walked away with silver from the mixed doubles event part of the European Games
    underway in Minsk. On Tuesday night the Romanians were defeated in finals by
    Patrick Franziska and Petrisa Solja of Germany 3-0. Several athletes from
    Romania have so far become medalists at the European Games in Minsk. Laura
    Georgeta Coman became gold medalist in the 10-meter air rifle event. Dacian
    Barna and Andreea Bogati stepped onto the second step of the podium in the
    aerobic gymnastics contest and so did Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs in
    the table tennis contest. Three Romanians, Daniela Poroineanu, Anda Mihaela
    Valvoi and Alina-Petronela Paunescu have obtained bronze medals in the Sambo
    contest of the aforementioned European Games where Romania is being represented
    by a delegation of 123 athletes. Some of these results are counting towards qualification
    for the Olympic Games in Tokyo.






    (translated by bill)

  • April 27, 2019 UPDATE

    April 27, 2019 UPDATE

    EASTER Orthodox believers who are a majority in Romania, together with
    their Greek-Catholic counterparts on Sunday celebrate Easter, the Resurrection
    of Lord Jesus Christ, the most important event of Christianity. On Saturday in
    Jerusalem, the Greek Patriarch held the Ceremony of the Holy Light, a regular
    Orthodox service during which the Patriarch goes out of the Holy Sepulchre and
    share light with the believers. A delegation of the Romanian Orthodox Church went
    to Jerusalem to bring into Romania the Holy Light by means of a charter plane.
    At midnight, churches all over Romania saw special services devoted to Christ’s
    Resurrection. Roman Catholics and Protestant believers celebrated Easter on
    April 21st. In his Easter address, Romanian Patriarch Daniel urges
    believers that ‘through good words and deeds they bring joy and light in the
    hearts of the orphans, the sick, the needy, the old, to those in mourning and
    those alone’. Also ‘we shouldn’t forget the Romanians abroad and pray for them
    and their salvation’ the Patriarch went on to say. Florentin Crihalmeanu, the
    bishop of the Greek-Catholic eparchy in Cluj, north-western Romania, has
    reminded believers that the Christian life is a permanent fight, a beautiful
    one, which allows us to celebrate every moment when Christ wins in our life. He
    again hailed the visit Pope Francis is going to pay to Romania in a month, when
    he is going to beatify the 7 Greek-Catholic martyrs who died in the communist
    prisons.








    CAMPAIGN An election campaign for the European Parliament, whose elections
    are due on May 26th, kicked off in Romania on Saturday. Out of the
    13 political groups vying for seats in the European Parliament, there are the
    ruling PSD and ALDE, UDMR, the Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, as well
    as the opposition PNL, the USR-PLUS alliance, PMP and ProRomania, a group
    formed by PSD dissidents. There are also other extra-Parliament parties in this
    election race, such as the National Unity Bloc, UNPR and the United Romania
    Party, PRODEMO, the Romanian Socialist Party, and the Independent Social
    Democratic Party. There are also three independent candidates vying for seats
    in the European Parliament. Romania will have 33 members in the future European
    Parliament, but under a European Council decision, the 33rd mandate
    will commence only after Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc has produced
    judicial effects. 441 polling stations have been set up for the Romanians
    abroad, most of them in Italy, Spain and the neighboring Republic of Moldova.
    Concurrently with the aforementioned elections, the Romanians are expected to
    have their say in a referendum on justice, initiated by the country’s president
    Klaus Iohannis.

    TABLE TENNIS Romanian Ovidiu Ionescu and Spanish Alvaro Robles on Saturday won
    the silver medals in the double match of the World Table Tennis Championship in
    Budapest Hungary. The two conceded defeat in the finals to Chinese Long Ma and
    Chuqin Wang. In another development, the board of the European Table Tennis Federation decided
    that Romania host the 2021 edition of the European Table Tennis Team
    Championships. Romania hosted the European Cadet and Junior Table Tennis
    Championship in 2018.








    FREQUENCIES Dear friends,
    Radio Romania International has operated new changes into the frequencies of
    its transmissions due to come into effect on April 27th. So, the RRI
    broadcast at 3:00 UTC to North America, (the West Coast) can be received on the
    frequency of 7375 kHz in the analogue system, while our programmes to India are
    carried by 13630 kHz in the DRM system.


    (translated by bill)

  • Tier- und umweltfreundliche Gärten in der Stadt

    Tier- und umweltfreundliche Gärten in der Stadt

    Die Rumänische Ornithologen-Gesellschaft will ein neues Projekt zur Biodiversität ins Leben rufen — diesmal geht es um die Biodiversität in den Städten, mit anderen Worten um die Stadtfauna. Die Einschränkung der Grünflächen aufgrund der städtischen Entwicklung hat zur Zerstörung von Habitaten geführt — mehrere Vogelarten und Säugetiere hatten darunter zu leiden. Für Igel und Eichhörnchen ist die Lage besonders heikel, da sie nirgendwo mehr Unterkunft finden und die Nahrungsressourcen immer knapper werden. Deshalb ermutigen Ornithologen die Gartenbesitzer, ihren Raum mit den Stadttieren zu teilen und die Tiere mit einigen einfachen Aktivitäten zu unterstützen. Worum es dabei geht, wei‎ß Ovidiu Bufnilă, PR-Beauftragter der Ornithologen-Gesellschaft.



    Die Fauna wird aus ihren Lebensräumen verdrängt, es gibt allerdings Tier- und Vogelarten, die vollständig urbanisiert sind, die sich sehr gut an das Leben in der Stadt angepasst haben. Darunter fallen mehrere Vogelarten, Eidechsen, Frösche, Igel, Eichhörnchen und sogar Schmetterlinge, die die Menschen sehr gerne in ihren Gärten hätten. Aber sie wissen nicht, wie sie sie locken können. Deshalb haben wir uns vorgenommen, die Gartenbesitzer zu beraten, sie sollen lernen, wie man z.B. Vögel pflegen und sie in die Grünanlagen locken kann. Am einfachsten ist es, eine Vogeltränke einzurichten — das kann ein Blumentopf sein, den man mit Wasser füllt. Und sie werden sehen, dass nicht nur die Vögel dort trinken werden, die in der Nachbarschaft ihr Nest haben, sondern auch viele andere aus gro‎ßer Entfernung. Es wird auch eine Eidechse vorbeischauen, die sich im Sonnenlicht aufwärmen will, hier und da wird ein Frosch vorbeihüpfen und in der Nacht ist das Wasser in dem Gefä‎ß ideal für den Igel. Es gibt in Bukarest viele Igel, die auf Streife durch die Gärten gehen und sich mit Schnecken füttern. Es reicht allerdings aus, eine Tränke einzurichten und sie werden mit Sicherheit vorbeikommen. Wir haben eine ganze Reihe von technischen Ratschlägen für die Naturliebenden. Neben den Tränken können Futterstellen, künstliche Nester, kleine Steingärten oder Refugien für Eidechsen und Fröschen eingerichtet werden. Der ganze Ma‎ßnahmenkatalog ist auf unserer Seite www.sor.ro unter dem Menüpunkt des Projektes zu finden. Dort werden Sie Ratschläge für das Anlocken von Schmetterlingen und Marienkäfern vorfinden, oder Methoden, mit denen man das Wasser für Vögel auch im Winter warm halten kann. Es reicht völlig aus, einen alten Baum im Garten oder im Obstgarten zu haben, der ideal für Vögel ist. Man kann bestimmte Jungbäume verpflanzen, um die Fauna anzulocken. Dort wo Marienkäfer leben, werden auch die Vögel auftauchen. Es ist also eine gesamte Nahrungskette, die sich langsam in Ihrem Garten entwickeln wird. Am schönsten wird es sein, wenn Sie am frühen Morgen bei einem warmen Tee oder Kaffee aus dem Fenster die Natur bewundern können.“




    Die Gartenbesitzer, die sich dem Projekt zur Erhaltung der städtischen Biodiversität anschlie‎ßen, werden mit einer Plakette belohnt, auf der Umweltfreundlicher Garten“ steht. Und der schönste Garten soll auch mit einem Überraschungspreis der Rumänischen Ornithologen-Gesellschaft ausgezeichnet werden.