Bucharest

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  • Romanian Villagers Managed to Keep Fracking Out of Their Backyard

    Last week, 600 angry farmers from the village of Pungeşti protested to stall the Chevron bulldozers heading for their land, and they won at least a temporary victory when the company decided to delay operations in the area.

  • Photographing the Sewer People of Bucharest

    Two years ago, photographer Jen Tse went to Bucharest, Romania, to document the people who have been living desperate lives in the city's sewer system since being forced underground by severe poverty.

  • Romanian Notes

    In Bucharest, the psychological damage inflicted on a society subjected to surveillance terror is apparent everywhere when you scratch the surface, even 24 years after the fall of Ceauşescu. There, no problem is too small to be insoluble, no conflict...

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  • A Few Days in Bulgaria

    I dream I’ve been placed in an impossible situation in which suicide is the only appealing option. Not because of imminent physical destruction or incurable medical problems, but because the prospect of extreme, permanent immiseration appears in the...

  • Bucharest Is a Paradise

    According to legend, the capital of Romania takes its name from some guy named Bucur who was either a prince, an outlaw, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a hunter. It's hard to understand how the truth could have gotten so muddled over the years, but it...

  • Children of the Sewer

    Bucharest's foundations are home to dozens of deformed children.

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