January 21, 2023

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Newsroom, 21.01.2023, 13:55

ASYLUM Romania’s immigration department registered 40 asylum requests on
Friday. Most of these, 24, were filed by citizens from Bangladesh. The General
Inspectorate for Immigration has also issued 394 permits for the beneficiaries
of temporary protection, out of which 388 for the Ukrainian nationals. Last year
4398 Ukrainian citizens applied for asylum in Romania and they benefit from all
the rights stipulated in the national legislation. The total number of
Ukrainians who entered Romania since the beginning of the invasion is around
3.5 million. Almost 29% of the accommodation facilities for these refugees have
been occupied.

DAY
The Day celebrating the Union of the Romanian Principalities will be marked by
the representations of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Chisinau, Rome,
Warsaw, Venice, Istanbul and Vienna. The Romanian Cultural Institute in Chisinau
stages a scientific event devoted to 164 years since the Union of the Romanian
Principalities – Moldova and Wallachia. The Romanian Institute of Culture and
Humanistic Research in Venice is staging a conference meant to emphasize the
cordial Romanian-Italian relations in the period of Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866)
and the symmetric destiny of the two peoples in the process of completing their
national unity. The Academia di Romania in Rome is also celebrating the Union
day with a film screening on the portrait of Romanian ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza
made by photographer Carol Popp of Szathmari. The Romanian Cultural Institute
in Warsaw will be screening on the Youtube platform a film with Polish
subtitles entitled ‘The 1859 Union of the Romanian Principalities’ directed by
Radu Gaina. The Romanian Cultural institutes in Istanbul and Vienna are also
screening films about the aforementioned union and the personality of ruler
Alexandru Ioan Cuza.

FAIR Romania has a national stand at the
International travel Fair taking place in Madrid until Sunday. The stand has
been developed by the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Tourism jointly with
several field associations and is promoting cultural trips, rural tourism and
city-break packages. Among other things, the Romanian programme also includes
meetings with relevant players from the public and private tourist sector with
the view to introducing Romania’s touristic potential to Spain. At the same
time, the fair is a good opportunity of promoting the city of Timisoara as
European Capital of Culture in 2023.

TENNIS Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse and her Ukrainian partner
Marta Kostyuk have qualified for the round of 16 of the women’s doubles in
Australian Open after their 3-6, 7-6, 6-0 win against Nicole Martinez of the
USA and Ellen Perez of Australia in Melbourne on Saturday. Ruse and Kostyuk
will be next taking on the winners of the game pitching the Czechs Miriam
Kolodziejova and Marketa Vondrousova to Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil and Shuai
Zhang of China. Also in the round of 16, the
Romanian-Swiss pair made up of Monica Niculescu and Viktorija Golubic
will be taking either on the fourth-seeded pair made up of Storm Hunter of Australia
and Elise Mertens of Belgium or Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic
of France.

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