Inflation.<\/strong> The National Bank of Romania decided
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Expulsion.<\/strong> The Romanian authorities
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Ukraine.
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Covid-19.
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Academy.<\/strong> Historian Ioan-Aurel Pop won a second 4-year term as president of the
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\nto increase the key interest rate from Wednesday to 3% from 2.5% per year, as
\nwell as the interest rates on loans or deposits with the National Bank made by
\ncommercial banks. The move has been expected by most economists. The key
\ninterest rate or the monetary policy interest rate determines the evolution of
\nall banking interest rates and represents the main instrument available to the
\nNational Bank to fight inflation. The central bank forecasts that the inflation
\nrate will go up more than expected in February, owing to the rising cost of
\nfuels and processed food, the war in Ukraine and international sanctions
\nagainst Russia. <\/p>\n
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\nhave declared ten Russian diplomats in Bucharest personae non gratae, saying
\ntheir activity runs counter to the provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on
\nDiplomatic Relations. Romanian foreign minister Bogdan Aurescu summoned the
\nRussian ambassador to Bucharest Valery Kuzmin on Tuesday, informing him of this
\ndecision and reiterating his firm condemnation of the crimes committed in Bucha
\nand other places in Ukraine and for which Russia is responsible. Following revelations
\nin recent days of the massacre committed by the Russian army in Bucha, many EU
\nand NATO states, including France, Germany and Denmark, have expelled dozens of
\nRussian diplomats, with Lithuania even expelling the Russian ambassador in
\nVilnius. <\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that the war in Ukraine
\nhas reached a crucial phase. He told a press conference that Russia would try
\nto take control of the entire Donbas, a pro-Moscow break-away region in eastern
\nUkraine, and create a land bridge with Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula which
\nRussia occupied in 2014. Stoltenberg estimated that the regrouping and
\nrepositioning of the Russian forces from northern Ukraine, where they abandoned
\nattempts to take over the capital Kyiv, will take a few weeks, before they
\nlaunch a major offensive in the east. He stressed that in that window, it is
\nextremely important that NATO allies provide support to the Ukrainian military.
\nNATO foreign ministers on Wednesday and Thursday are set to discuss with their
\nUkrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba ways to provide weapons, ammunition and
\nmedical supplies to Ukraine, Stoltenberg also said.<\/p>\n
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\nMoldova.<\/strong> The Republic of Moldova is Ukraine’s most vulnerable neighbour, taking
\nin more refugees fleeing Ukraine per head than any other country, said
\nRomania’s foreign minister Bogdan Aurescu in Berlin on Tuesday. He co-hosted,
\ntogether with his German and French counterparts Annalena
\nBaerbock and Jean-Yves Le Drian an international donor conference for Moldova. Earlier,
\nthe country’s pro-western president Maia Sandu said Moldova fully complies with
\ninternational sanctions against Russia and that its only vulnerable aspect in
\nrelation with Moscow is the purchase of natural gas. According to a census from
\n2014, the Republic of Moldova has a majority Romanian-speaking population, with
\n80% of its citizens identifying as Romanian or Moldovan, while 6.5% are ethnic
\nUkrainians and 4% ethnic Russians. <\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Romania on Tuesday reported over 3,000 new Covid cases, up from the previous
\nday. Almost 2,400 people infected with Covid are receiving hospital treatment,
\nincluding 360 in intensive care. 27 Covid related deaths were also recorded on
\nTuesday. <\/p>\n
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\nRomanian Academy. A corresponding member since 2001, he was also the rector of Babe\u0219-Bolyai University. His work focuses on the
\nresearch of Romanian and central and south-east European mediaeval history. The
\nRomanian Academy was established 156 years ago. (CM)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"