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How a small American town has become a transit point for Romanians who want to illegally enter the USA from Canada
On February 25, 2022, on a day when thermometers barely showed -15 degrees C, four SUVs crossed illegally from Canada to the United States, on a dirt road in the northern American state of Maine. 27 Romanian citizens, among them a pregnant woman, were crammed into the four vehicles which were advancing through the snow banks.
Iranian Women Living in Romania: "Any woman can be arrested by the morality police. They can beat you to death"
More than 3000 km away, in Romania, the Iranians living here are terrified for the safety of their families and friends back home. And for the women, it's even more painful: here they have found freedom, but they have never forgotten what an encounter with the morality police means and how hard it is to be a woman in a theocratic dictatorship.
26/09/2022
One Year of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan. "Our only fault is that we are women"
Women in Afghanistan have lost their freedom rights since the Taliban took over a year ago. One year after this event, we paid a visit to a country where the hopeful women of the past now are living in hiding.
14/08/2022
The Migrants Nobody Wants, Stranded Between Turkey and Greece: "In the sea you don't know if you are dead or you are alive"
We patrolled for four days together with the Turkish Coast Guard Command in the strait between Çeşme, Turkey, and the island of Chios, Greece.
11/07/2022
Covering up the Kompromat Operation. Evidence Fabricated Two Hours After Discussion With Interior Minister Lucian Bode
"I’ll have you know we’re not playing here, Mrs. Șercan!" These were the words with which, on February 21, quaestor Benone Matei, head of the Romanian Police, presented to me an alleged technical analysis. It showed that a screenshot, from which a kompromat operation against me had originated, was published by an Iceland-registered website, patrianoastra.com, before I handed it over to the Police.
07/07/2022
On the Front Line. The Ukrainians Who Won't Give Up
Mykolaiv is on the road towards another symbolic southern centre, the city of Odesa. But the Russian troops from the Crimean Peninsula that are headed towards Odesa stumbled near the entrance to Mykolaiv in the face of Ukrainian resistance.
11/05/2022
Has Putin Actually Helped Bulgaria by Halting the Russian Gas Supply?
Two weeks ago, the Russian Gazprom announced that it would no longer deliver gas to Poland and Bulgaria. The reason - the sanctions towards the Russian Federation. But did the Bulgarian people actually need this to happen?
09/05/2022
Odesa, Ukraine: Easter in Times of War
The port city of Odessa seemed like a place where Ukrainians could still retreat to in some safety from Russian troop attacks. Until yesterday, on the last day of the Holy Week of Easter, a multi-missile attack hit, among other things, a block of flats in a residential area.
09/05/2022
Hungarian Parliamentary Elections 2022. How Sunday's Optimism Turned Into Monday's Pessimism
Budapest, Hungary. If it weren't for the blossoming trees, you'd swear it was November, not late March. But you certainly wouldn't be able to miss the fact that something is about to happen in the city. A politician is watching you from every lamppost on the street.
02/05/2022
Moldova: What is Transnistria Preparing For?
What is really happening in Transnistria and who was behind the recent attacks?
29/04/2022
Emilia Șercan: “State authorities have orchestrated a kompromat operation against me. Now they’re trying to cover it up."
This text is about the way in which an investigative journalist is being threatened, harassed, intimidated and discredited - not by representatives of organized crime groups, but with the intercession and complicity of Romanian state officials!
04/04/2022
The Ukrainian diaspora in Athens: "My brother is 25, he is a programmer and today he went to war"
The Ukrainian diaspora has been protesting for more than a week against Putin's aggression and the Russian invasion, which are now endangering the lives of their families back home.
24/02/2022