Mircea Barbu

Journalist | Associate professor at Uni of Bucharest Journalism School | It’s pronounced Meer-CHA

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🚨 Lauren Southern tells the story of allegedly being assaulted by Andrew Tate after Tommy Robinson brought her to Bucharest for a bogus "business meeting."

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I love this story:

At the time of Hitler’s invasion, Vasily Grossman, a Jew from Ukraine, was exempt from military service on account of his being overweight, asthmatic, and near-sighted. He insisted, instead, on going to the front as a war correspondent. 1/3

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Madeleine Wulfahrt writes. Read her account of how Grossman remade what war reporting could be: https://t.co/BL8ayf773g

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Several weeks ago, after the woman’s name first appeared online, I filed a Freedom of Information request seeking an explanation from the spokesperson of Ilfov Tribunal.

I have yet to receive a response.

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A Romanian court has finally anonymised the name of an alleged victim in the Tate brothers’ human trafficking case after it was published repeatedly on the court portal.

But the decision comes too late. 🧵

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This is particularly serious in a case involving Andrew and Tristan Tate, whose enormous online following has repeatedly been mobilised against women who have accused them of wrongdoing.

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The message is clear: as Neptun Deep moves closer to production, protecting the gas field is becoming a strategic mission in its own right. The Black Sea is no longer only a military frontier. It is increasingly an energy frontier too.

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‼️ Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria have agreed to expand the mission of their Black Sea naval task force. The headline is not mine clearance. It’s energy security. Specifically, the protection of critical offshore infrastructure such as Romania’s Neptun Deep gas project. 🧵

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The new Black Sea agreement is therefore significant. Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria are effectively creating a regional mechanism to monitor, deter and respond to threats against offshore energy and communications infrastructure before a crisis occurs.

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In 1990, the world discovered Romania’s network of “child gulags,” in which an estimated 170,000 abandoned infants, children, and teens were being raised, Melissa Fay Greene wrote in 2020. Here’s what’s become of them: https://t.co/xvCFr0Y58K

📸: Benjamin Rasmussen

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Watch the documentary here:

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In Ukraine, the war is fought not only on the front line, but also within society itself.

As the military struggles to replenish its ranks, millions of men are avoiding conscription while many soldiers already at the front are exhausted after years of fighting. 🧵

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Filmed in western Ukraine and northern Romania the documentary follows those caught between duty, fear, survival and the demands of a nation fighting for its future.