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Mircea Ioan Popa, a researcher with the Bucharest-based Cantacuzino Institute, said on Thursday that the vaccine against COVID-19, which is to be developed in Romania under a collaboration agreement between the OncoGen Centre and the Cantacuzino Institute, should preferably be intranasal instead of injectable. "We have to mention that leading this project are our colleagues in Timisoara.

An Athens appeals court on Monday upheld life sentences against convicted crime boss Panayiotis Vlastos and two more members of his crime syndicate.

The court rejected the appeals of Vlastos, Giorgos Katsayiannis and Aristomenis Kleftoyiannis, who had been sentenced to life terms. It also upheld sentences of between seven and 18 years for another 11 people.

An Athens court on Wednesday rejected the appeals of convicted crime boss Panayiotis Vlastos and another 14 people against their convictions for the kidnapping of shipowner Pericles Panagopoulos in January 2009.

Novinite is offering an English-language version of an interview with the Bulgarian co-producer of Aferim!, a movie awarded with a Silver Bear in Berlin in 2015.

The cousin of crime boss Panayiotis Vlastos (photo), who continued his illegal activity from prison, was remanded in custody on Thursday.

Known only as Litsa, the woman?s identity has been kept a secret for security reasons and she gave evidence before a magistrate on Thursday in complete secrecy.

The Union Day of January 24, when the Romanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia united in 1859 will be celebrated at the Patriarchal Cathedral, in schools and cultural units in the capital on Saturday by a range of events.

Photo: (c) Alex MICSIK/AGERPRES STREAM

Another two suspected members of a huge extortion racket centered around convicted crime boss Panayiotis Vlastos were remanded in custody on Wednesday after defending themselves before an investigating magistrate.

In an interview to AGERPRES under the 'MY CITY, BUCHAREST' project, actor Valentin Teodosiu talks about the Bucharest of his childhood, calling it 'exceptional,' admitting that he would not move out even if his emotions now are not that high as they used to be back then.