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This morning, a merchant vessel was hit and sank in Romania’s exclusive economic zone, roughly 15 nautical miles off the Romanian coast by what appears to be a new type of Russian drone. The crew members, eight Ukrainians and four Azerbaijanis, were rescued by the Romanian Navy.
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Less than an hour ago, Romanian F-16s destroyed an unidentified maritime drone less than 1 km from the Neptun Deep platform. This is Romania’s largest natural gas extraction project, expected to turn the country into EU's largest gas producer once production begins in 2027.
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OTD in 1989, following mass protests, the Russian occupiers allowed Moldovans to return to writing in their native Romanian language using the Latin alphabet. Today, thousands gathered in Moldova's capital city to celebrate the Romanian language by a Grand National Dictation.
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OTD 35 years ago, Ceaușescu delivered what would become his final speech, addressing 100k people forcibly gathered there so he could stage a facade of popular support for his regime. In one of the most iconic moments of modern history, he will lose control of the crowd.🧵
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Not even two months since he last wanted to annex Danish territory and claimed European soldiers “stayed a little back” while dying in America’s last two wars, Donald Trump now asks Europeans to come fight to reopen the strait his war, the one he claims he won, has closed.
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"I'm proudly telling you that we're going to try and have no windmills built in the United States. [...] They're unsightly. They make a lot of noise." We are watching live a nation of 350 million led by a visibly insane man commit collective suicide for no discernible reason.
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With less than 24 hours left until Hungarians head to the polls, I figured it is a good moment to take one final look at what Viktor Orbán has achieved in his 16 years of uninterrupted, near absolute reign in Hungary, by comparing Hungary’s performance with that of Romania.🧵
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Reporter: "As Trump's popularity rises around the world, especially in regions where he's invested so much effort in promoting peace and ending wars, you think we might be watching the emergence of a global MAGA movement?" This is all that's left of journalism in Trump's US.
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Trying to make the point that life in Russia may be short, but at least it's bad, the 800k residents of Tyumen are now receiving sewage mixed in with their tap water, all the fish in the local river have died, 150 homes got flooded and there's a rotavirus epidemic going round.
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