A beautiful communicator 

Lolita studies Communication Science in Timisoara (Banat/western Transylvania), and enjoys modelling...

• Blogging: Gods of a secularised world: All the international sports events, from olympic games to football championships, have been marked, in recent years, by ceremonies that tended to be ever more somptuous, ever more costly...
• The struggle for sports: Romania used to be one of Europe's sports powers during the communist years. Now, the performance achieved in this malfunctioning system is considered a miracle...
• The broken government: Daniel Timoce explains how and why Romania's governing coalition broke up
• The ID of individualism, determination, and country: Kimberley Gilmour reviews Domnica Radulescu's debut novel 'Train to Trieste'
• Is the concept of TV series changing? Everybody who lives in a part of the world that benefits from the miracle of electricity owns a TV set and knows what a series is...
• Agro-dementia: Charles Bell discusses why Romanian farmers are turning their backs on European money
• Misguided youth using an ethnic excuse: A week ago today was one of Hungary's four national days...
• The burden of EU accession: For six years of my life I recruited Romanian professionals to take up employment in the UK...

• OnlineNewspapers.Com - online directory with thousands of world newspapers sorted by region and country
• WorldPress.org - nonpartisan magazine featuring stories from the press outside USA; international media directory
• Romania News - from the media monitoring service EIN News (English)
• Ro24.com - latest news about Romania collected from various sources (Romanian and English)
• FreeNews.Ro - general news from Romania (Romanian)
• Szabadság - general news from Transylvania (Hungarian)
• VisitMaramures.ro - Maramures County's official tourism information website
• Visit-Transylvania.co.uk - guided tours and tailor-made holidays in Eastern Europe
• VisitTransilvania.ro - tours to Dracula Castle, Maramures, and other tourist hotspots in Romania
  
• Kidon Media-Link - nearly 19,000 newspapers and other news sources sorted by country
• Transylvania.info - comprehensive directory of Transylvania & Romania related sites
  
• Orpheus Capitals - Investment consulting company with headquarters in Cluj city
• Pictures of Romania - interactive website with a nice collection of photos from Romania
• Freedom of Expression Project Cluj - a journalism site maintained by the Media Observer Cluj association
• Zanele.Ro - The Dacian Fairies, a dance and performance company based in Zalau city

The links below allow you to have the latest news from Transylvania drectly on your desktop. To subscribe, you will need a so-called 'news reader' (you can search for one here).

Also, if you are a webmaster, you can display the latest SevenTimes.Ro headlines on your own site using RSS, ATOM, or OPML feeds.

• Politics is football
• Russia's Gazprom invites Romania to join South Stream
• No buyer for Bucharest four-star hotel
• Dictator's family, against the use of name 'Ceausescu' in advertising
• Experts: Real estate will keep downwads trend
• Thousands businesses closed down in a month
• Piranha, fished out in Transylvanian artificial lake
• Two youngsters rebuild Romania for Google Earth
• Dacia cars, made in Algeria
• Romanian-Bulgarian discusions over Danube Bridge 2
• Toyota recalls 12,500 cars in Romania
• Documents of Romanian Revolution, to be unclassified
• Canadians plan to build more atomic reactors in Romania
• Highest unemployment in seven years: 8.1pc
• Authorities, to ban 'legal drugs'
• Shopping mall in Ceausescu's palace?
• Romania OKs anti-missile shield
• Mass redundancies announced in county Cluj
• Fitch: Romania, now 'stable'
• 'Moderate growth' predicted for Romanian economy

First feature film made in Transylvania

The movie Katalin Varga (2009, directed by Peter Strickland) tells a troubling story of love, crime, forgiveness, and revenge. Read our news about it here. 

For Sale: Dracula's Transylvanian castle

You already know the myth. Now find out the facts about Bran Castle from this short Al Jazeera film. At present, a large number of old Transylvanian castles are waiting for investors pepared to buy them and restore their condition. Read more here. 

Too much Krivach won't kill you

A fresh and untypical interpretation of Queen's 'Too much love will kill you' convinced the members of the jury that Razvan Krivach deservs the big trophy at Brasov's 2008 Golden Stag music festival. Read more here, or listen and watch the song below:

Afrim's Attic

They are gross and at the same time funny; they are genuine, but also bold: The characters pictured up by young director Radu Afrim tell something about our own fears, our hopes, and maybe our madness.

Mr Afrim's work has been recently acclaimed at Avignon Off 2008 festival. Find out more here, and watch this short scene from his 'Mansarde à Paris/ Les détours Cioran' recorded by an amateur: 

Drama experiments in Transylvania

A walk to the fringes of the possibilities of modern theatre. It's called Man.In.Fest, and it's an international festival of the experimental, the unexplored, and the unimagined theatre.

Read more about the 2008 edition here, and watch a short film about the 2007 edition of Man.In.Fest below: