Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik will visit Romania and Poland this week for bilateral discussions on defense and arms cooperation, his office said Friday, amid Seoul's push to clinch more arms exports, https://en.yna.co.kr/ reports. For the first leg of his trip, Shin will visit Romania from Monday through Wednesday for talks with his Romanian counterpart, Angel Tilvar, on expanding defense and arms cooperation, according to his office. Shin is also scheduled to pay a courtesy call on Romanian Prime Minister Ion-Marcel Ciolacu. On Wednesday, Shin will leave for a three-day visit to Poland where he is slated to co-chair a joint ministerial committee meeting on bilateral defense and arms industry cooperation with his Polish counterpart, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. South Korea and Poland held the inaugural session of the regular consultative body in Seoul in June last year, following a roll-out ceremony for the first FA-50GF light attack aircraft exported to Poland, seen as a symbolic display of their growing cooperation in the arms industry. During the visit, Shin will also visit an air base where the FA-50 light combat aircraft have been deployed. Shin's trip comes as South Korea has been pushing to boost arms exports, with his Romanian visit expected to touch on South Korean arms the East European country has shown interest in, such as K9 self-propelled howitzers, Redback infantry fighting vehicles and K2 tanks. In 2022, Poland signed procurement deals worth 17 trillion won (US$12.3 billion) to buy K2 tanks, K9 self-propelled howitzers, FA-50 light attack aircraft and Chunmoo multiple rocket launchers to bolster its defenses in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war.
TikTok has launched an Election Center dedicated to Romania's upcoming elections as part of its broader effort to protect "the integrity of the platform" and promote access to reliable information. The initiative is supported by a new media literacy campaign and ongoing collaboration with more than 20 fact-checking partners, the company said in a statement. […]
Romanian acting president Ilie Bolojan met on Friday, April 25, with a delegation from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, or ODIHR, of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), according to a statement from the presidential administration. The acting president told the delegation that Romania "is faithful to democratic principles […]
Shareholders of Romanian oil company OMV Petrom recently approved the distribution of record dividends amounting to RON 2.8 billion (EUR 562.6 million) for the 2024 financial year, as well as the 2025 budget, which provides for investments of RON 8.1 billion (EUR 1.6 billion). The decision was taken during the Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meetings […]
The 2025 edition of the European Film Festival (FFE), which takes place this year in Bucharest and nine other cities, will screen more than 40 feature films, 28 of which are national premieres. The festival will also present two selections of short films, also screened as national premieres. Among them are 11 documentaries, 13 films […]
Update: The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an official press release that the Romanian citizen was initially detained in the Abkhazia region four months ago and was later transferred to Sochi, Russia. "Steps have already been taken to provide consular protection and assistance with the central and local authorities, in accordance with international regulations," […]
Russia’s Federal Security Service, FSB, said on Friday, April 25, that it arrested a 23-year-old Romanian citizen on suspicion of spying for Ukraine by sharing the locations of Russian air defense systems. The unnamed man is accused of collecting and transmitting information about air defense sites in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi to […]
