“In the 1980s Romania was a time of penury when many products were very hard to find, if not impossible,” said Clark Center Director Alexandru Balas. “It was very expensive and not usually available ...

Initially hailed as the man who would lead Romania into a new democratic era, Iliescu's legacy soon became more complicated. His leadership steered the nation through its fragile early years of ...

It’s also a depiction of a very specific moment – the time immediately prior to the fall of the Ceausescu regime, its young heroine representing Romania’s so-called ‘lost generation’ of children. This ...

During the 1970s and 1980s, Romania was an active member of the Soviet Union’s Interkosmos programme to involve fellow socialist nations in space exploration.

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Romania threatened to break into the cartel of top nations when it started producing teams capable of beating the likes of Wales, Scotland and France.

In 1980s Romania, thousands of Western films smashed through the Iron Curtain opening a window into the free world for those who dared to look. A black-market VHS racketeer and a courageous female ...