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April 5, 2018
April 5, 2018

, 05.04.2018, 14:19

MAUNDY THURSDAY Greek Catholic and Orthodox believers, who are a majority in Romania, are today celebrating Maundy Thursday recollecting the Lord Jesus Christs last supper, his arrest and death sentence. 12 excerpts from the Bible describing these events are to be read tonight in churches all over Romania.





TENNIS Romanian tennis player Irina Begu (13th-seeded) has defeated Claire Liu of the USA 6-4, 6-2 and will be playing in the round of 16 of the WTA tournament held in Charlston, South Carolina, against third-seeded and title holder Darya Kasatkina. In the second round of the tournament with total prizes of 776 thousand dollars, 15th-seeded Mihaela Buzarnescu of Romania has been outperformed by Italian Sara Errani 3-6, 7-6, 6-2. The Romanian has qualified for the quarter finals of the doubles contest where she will join British Heather Watson after a 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 against the all-Japanese pair made up of Misaki Doi and Christina McHale. Buzarnescu and Watson will be playing US-German pair Raquel Atawo/Anna-Lena Groenefeld in the quarterfinals.





PROTESTS Members of the Trade Federation of Train Drivers have today picketed the Transport Ministry in Bucharest. The protesters have denounced several issues such as the debts of rail company CFR SA, the situation of rail infrastructure, the statute of the rail personnel as well as the low salaries. The train drivers have announced they will be picketing the Transport Ministry on three days, April 5th, 12th, and 19th and stage a march towards the government headquarters on April 23rd. Also today, disgruntled with the pay law, employees of the Marius Nasta Lung Center in Bucharest are on their second day of protests.





EASTER Over 50 thousand employees of Romanias Interior Ministry have been summoned to ensure public security all over the country during Easter. Gendarme and police troops will be chiefly deployed around churches and other religious institutions. 250 thousand people are expected to attend more than 700 public events that will take place in Romania in the next four days. Traffic police, equipped with more than 300 traffic radars and backed by helicopters, will be monitoring traffic on Romanias motorways on Easter days.





MARCH The Euxodiu Hurmuzachi institute for the Romanians abroad, an institution subordinated to the Ministry for the Romanians Abroad jointly with the Lauder-Reut Educational Complex will be staging a March of Holocaust survivors – Lets learn together, in Poland over April 9th and 13th. The event, which has an educational character and is aimed at teaching students a dramatic episode in history, involves the participation of young people from 52 countries. The Romanian delegation includes students from Romania and the Republic of Moldova. The project is part of the IEH “The Romanian Identity Caravan, which includes a series of cultural events destined to promote Romanian culture as well as the consolidation of the Romanian national identity being also in line with the Strategic Programme – The Romanian Common Cultural Area – Great Union Centennial 1918 – 2018


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