Angelo Brezoianu

The first Sunday of Great Lent was declared a feast of Orthodoxy in 843 to celebrate the triumph of the orthodox view over iconoclasm, the heresy that icons should not be venerated, and over all heresies.

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The tax alleviation programme in the new Fiscal Code aims at reducing some taxes for individuals and introducing several deductions, to correlate the fiscal burden with the wages, finances minister Darius Valcov said in an interview to AGERPRES.

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Implementing the sanctions regime against the Russian Federation doesn't represent an end-purpose, but a modality to stimulate dialogue "as a peace solution to the conflict and to discourage aggressive action," Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu said at Romania"s Embassy to France, on the occasion of the conference-debate called 'Security stakes and perspectives in the eastern neighbourho

Commenting on the recent vote of the Senate on the case of former Minister of Economy Varujan Vosganian, Romania's Prosecutor-general Tiberiu Nitu declared on Friday for AGERPRES that he is surprised at the attitude of the Senate to reject the start of prosecution proceedings, remarking that this could be interpreted as a signal of mistrust in the judiciary, which is unacceptable under the rule

Romania's annual inflation rate fell to a new historic low of 0.41% in January 2015, after having stood at 0.83% in late 2013, according to the data released on Friday by the National Statistics Institute (INS).

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A healthy diet requires in the first place knowing what the main food groups are, as well as their caloric and nutritional values, says Nicolae Hancu, PhD, Professor, who argues that one of the most broadly known and used methods that help the good functioning of the body is the 'food pyramid'.

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The Law on cyber security violates the constitutional provisions regarding the rule of law and the principle of legality, as well as the ones regarding the intimate, family and private life, the secrecy of correspondence, respectively, says the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR).

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The executive chairman of the Social Democrat Party (PSD, main in ruling coalition), Liviu Dragnea has commented on Thursday night the statements by senator Mircea Geoana in reference to the necessity of a new government, saying they are 'grave and irresponsible.'

An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude occurred on Wednesday morning at 5.10 local time (3.10 UTC) in Buzau County, in the Vrancea seismic zone (northeast of Bucharest); the National Institute for Earth Physics (INFP) announced the hypocenter was 145 km deep.

The members of the Romanian Senate's Committee for culture and media have talked on Tuesday with the Director General of the AGERPRES National News Agency, Alexandru Giboi about the necessity of altering the legislation regarding the copyright so that the journalist stuff released by AGERPRES be protected.