COMMEMORATION Romania’s Parliament convened in a solemn session on Wednesday to
\ncommemorate the victims of the Pogrom in Iasi, north-eastern Romania, 80 years
\nago. At that time over 13 thousand Jews were tortured and killed by the pro-Nazi
\nregime led by Ion Antonescu. Speaking in the opening of the event, the
\npresident of the Romanian Senate Anca Dragu said, quote: ‘This is a moment of
\nintrospection and reflection, a moment when we directly assume this tragic
\nevent in the history of our country but at the same time, a moment when we become aware of the historical consequences of xenophobic and racist attitudes’. In
\nturn, Romania’s Prime Minister Florin Citu has described the Iasi pogrom as a ‘dark
\npage’ in Romania’s history and underlined the idea of assuming the
\npast. Also attending the Parliament session, Musi-Mihail Cernea, one of the
\nsurvivors, recollected the horrific moments 80 years ago. President Klaus Iohannis Wednesday awarded
\nthe Faithful Service National Order, in the rank of Knight, to Musi-Mihail
\nCernea, Jehuda Evron and Moshe Yassur, survivors of the Ia\u015fi Pogrom of June
\n1941. The 3 were decorated as a show of respect for the suffering experience
\nduring WW2, for their high moral standards throughout their lives and their
\nefforts to preserve the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, a tragedy that
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FOOTBALL Romania’s Football Federation has announced the line-up of the
\nUnder-23 side to represent the country at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Romania
\nhas been included in group B and will be up against Honduras on July 22nd,
\nSouth Korea three days later, and New Zealand on July 28th. Romania
\nhas qualified for the Tokyo Olympics after having played in the semi-finals of
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TRANSMITTER Radiocom, the company
\nbroadcasting Radio Romania International’s programmes, has announced a new series
\nof repair works carried out on a transmitter in Tiganesti, close to Bucharest. The
\ncompany is stepping up efforts to mend the transmitter and render it operational
\nby August this year. Unfortunately, the defective transmitter is presently affecting
\nthe RRI English transmissions beamed to New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo
\nand Australia, the transmissions in French to Montreal and Central Africa, in
\nRussian to Moscow and Novosibirsk, in German to Berlin, in Spanish to Mexico,
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CERTIFICATE A web page where Romanian and foreign citizens can obtain digital
\nCOVID-19 certificates is to become available starting July 1st, the
\nSpecial Telecommunication Service (STS) has announced. The user-friendly application,
\nwhich is called certificate-covid.gov.ro, allows people to get the certificate
\nin less than 10 steps. According to the institution, its experts who developed
\nthe entire information system, have made the latest optimizations in accordance
\nwith the provisions of the ordinance endorsed by the government in Bucharest.
\nThe Covid certificate, which allows for the free movement inside the EU has a
\none-year validity for those who got the vaccine, and only a couple of hours for
\nthose who took rapid or PCR tests. 52 new infections have been reported in the
\npast 24 hours in Romania after 26 thousand tests have been carried out. 33,786
\npeople have been killed by the virus in Romania since the beginning of the
\npandemic. <\/p>\n
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