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A president for our silence

January 6, 2017

Ion Iliescu will die peacefully in his bed. And not just because of old age, but also because of the far too many political complicities which are still deterring a less “cautious” approach to Justice. Who was still expecting, more than a quarter of a century later, that post-communist Romania’s most long-lived president would risk […]

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