August 30, 2025 UPDATE
A roundup of the latest world and local news
Newsroom, 30.08.2025, 20:02
VISIT Romania’s president Nicusor Dan will be paying a formal visit to the neighboring Republic of Moldova, an ex-soviet Romanian speaking country, to participate in the events dedicated to the Romanian Language Day – the presidential administration in Chisinau has announced. According to the same sources, the head of the Romanian state will be met by the president of the Republic of Moldova, the pro-Western Maia Sandu, together with whom he will be attending several cultural events. This is President Dan’s third visit to the Republic since the beginning of his mandate. Other cultural events concurrently staged in Romania, the Republic of Moldova and the historical communities in the Diaspora are meant to mark the Romanian Language Day. Established by the Bucharest Parliament in 2013, the Romanian Language Day takes place concurrently with the national celebration in the Republic of Moldova and pays homage to the movement of national awakening in the neighboring Romanian-speaking state. On August 31 1989, back in the time of the former Soviet Union, the Parliament in Chisinau, picketed by 750 thousand people, a sixth of the then population of the republic, made Romanian the state language also passing from the Cyrillic alphabet, imposed by the occupation forces, to the Latin alphabet.
BIAS Over 150 thousand people are expected this weekend to attend the biggest air show in Romania, Bucharest International Air Show (BIAS) 2025. The event also comprises live performances, fireworks, exhibitions, souvenirs as well as areas especially made for children. The aforementioned airshow is to bring together over 200 civilian and military aircraft, 200 pilots and skydivers from Romania and other countries. The event celebrates 115 years since the first Romanian flight by Aurel Vlaicu and brings to the forefront one of the most famous aerobatics demonstration teams, Patrouille de France.
PARUBIY Ukrainian MP Andriy Parubiy, a former speaker of the Parliament in Kyiv, was shot dead in the western city of Lviv – the Ukrainian authorities have been quoted by international press agencies as saying. Police sources say that ‘a well-known political and public figure’ has been killed in an armed attack. President Volodymyr Zelensky later clarified the man killed was Andriy Parubiy and deplored what he described as a horrendous murder. A radical right-wing politician, who served a prison term back in the time of the USSR, Parubiy died at the age of 54.
MEASURES On Monday, the ruling coalition government in Bucharest is expected to take responsibility for the five bills in the second reform package providing for the pensions of the magistrates, healthcare, fiscal policies and state companies. The decision was made on Saturday by the permanent offices of the two chambers of the Legislature. There will be five successive sessions, each for every draft law endorsed by the government. A deadline for submitting amendments to this package has been set until nine o’clock on Monday. The bill on reforming the public administration, initially included in the same package of measures, is still being assessed by the government coalition made up of PSD, PNL, USR, UDMR and is supposed to have a separate legislative development.
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