{"id":819639,"date":"2024-10-20T13:55:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T10:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=819639"},"modified":"2024-10-20T13:49:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T10:49:53","slug":"october-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/october-20-2024-id819639.html","title":{"rendered":"October 20, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOLDOVA VOTES<\/strong> Moldovans are going to the polls today to cast their ballot for the president and to decide in a referendum the European future of this small, ex-soviet, Romanian-speaking country. The incumbent president, the pro-European Maia Sandu stands most chances to a second mandate and according to the polls, more than half of the respondents are voting in favour of the country\u2019s joining the EU. However, it seems that detaching from Moscow\u2019s sphere of influence is as difficult as gaining independence from the Soviet Union, which the country did more than three decades ago. The authorities in Chisinau have taken measures to prevent any internal and external provocations as well as any hostile actions, including from the pro-Russian, breakaway region of Transdniester. Over 22 hundred polling stations have been set up in the Republic of Moldova and over 230 for the Moldovans abroad, including 16 in the neighboring Romania.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>DAY <\/strong>According to Romania\u2019s Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, the day of October 20<sup>th<\/sup> is a historic one for the neighboring ex-soviet, Romanian-speaking Republic of Moldova. \u201cI am convinced that at the end of it, the Republic of Moldova will be one step closer to the European Union \u2013 where we can build the future together\u201d, Ciolacu wrote on Facebook on Sunday. Numerous political leaders in Romania, both from the opposition and the ruling coalition, have urged the Moldovan citizens to say \u2018Yes\u2019 at the referendum concerning the European integration. According to the Moldovan ambassador in Bucharest, Victor Chirila, there are 100 thousand Moldovan citizens in Romania, out of whom 20 thousand are students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FESTIVAL<\/strong> Bucharest is presently seeing the 34<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the National Theatre Festival, unfolding this year under a suggestive motto, \u201cDramaturgy of the Possible\u201d. Until October 28<sup>th<\/sup>, theatre goers are offered the opportunity of watching a series of performances, a selection which, according to organizers, is aimed at expressing various possible scenarios. The edition\u2019s official selection includes over 30 performances mounted by theatre troupes from all over the country. Among these there is the Anthology of Disappearance by Radu Afrim, William Shakespeare\u2019s Twelfth Night, directed by Andrei Serban, and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. This year\u2019s edition has also brought together theatre troupes from abroad, from Germany, Ireland, Poland and Belgium. The event has been produced by the Theaters Union in Romania, UNITER.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TENNIS<\/strong> Romania\u2019s table tennis player Bernadette Szocs has ensured medals in the singles and doubles contests of the European Table Tennis Championships underway in Linz, Austria. In the semis, Szocs will be up against Maria Xiao of Spain, after a win against Charlotte Lutz of France. In the doubles contest, Szocs and Sofia Polcanova of Austria will be up against the Czechoslovakian pair Hana Matelova\/Barbora Balazova.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(bill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOLDOVA VOTES Moldovans are going to the polls today to cast their ballot for the president and to decide in a referendum the European future of this small, ex-soviet, Romanian-speaking country. 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