Ambasada României în Statele Unite ale Americii / Romanian Embassy to US

12/06/2022

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12/06/2022

: Ana Everling & Taraf De Chicago in concert on December 17, 2022 from 7:30pm at Epiphany Center For The Arts in Chicago

🎤 Taraf de Chicago is the latest project of vocalist Ana Everling - an ensemble of musicians of different origins, who met in Chicago, and who play Romanian music. The instrumentation of the taraf is modern, with American influences, at the same time taking us to the past, towards a pure Romanian music, created with acoustic instruments, perceived and felt by these children of the 21st century.

✅ Ana Everling was one of our special guests this year at Romanian Weekend at The Wharf, the biggest Romanian Festival in Washington DC.

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12/06/2022

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12/05/2022

: Sibiu Christmas Market 2022 | Targul de Craciun din Sibiu

🎅 You should not miss the Christmas Market if you are in Sibiu! Already a tradition, Sibiu Christmas Market is one of the most appreciated Christmas fairs in Romania.

Photo: Targul de Craciun din Sibiu

12/05/2022

: Transylvania, first place in the Top 10 of Unbelievably Stunning Winter Destinations in Europe.

Transylvania is a surprisingly Romantic destination, according to TheTravel.com. “When visiting Romania, travelers should go beyond Bucharest and include Transylvania in their plans, and it's difficult to recommend just one city. The Bran Castle is a must-go year-round, but it looks magical when it's snow-covered. The region has many incredible towns, and travelers aiming to explore Christmas markets should head to Cluj, Sibiu, and Brasov”.

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12/04/2022

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12/03/2022

Doamna Ioana Engstrom a depus jurământul de credință față de România, redobândindu-și astfel cetățenia pe care dictatura comunistă i-a retras-o, la plecarea din țară. În mod simbolic, doamna Engstrom a depus jurământul chiar pe 1 Decembrie, de Ziua Națională a României.
Doamna Engstrom a emigrat, la vârsta de 21 de ani, în Statele Unite, unde a absolvit Magna Cum Laude Universitatea din New Mexico și și-a construit o carieră solidă în antreprenoriat. A decis să se retragă după 38 de ani de muncă. Ioana are o fire energică și voluntară și întreține legături solide cu românii din New Mexico, unde locuiește de 46 de ani, cât și cu autoritățile statale. Pentru calitățile dovedite de-a lungul anilor în relația cu comunitatea de români și cu ambasada, am decis să îi propun să reprezinte România în calitate de consul onorific în statul New Mexico, propunere pe care a acceptat-o cu plăcere. Ioana devine astfel primul consul onorific al României în acest stat american.
Felicitări Ioana Engstrom și mult succes în viitor!

12/02/2022

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12/02/2022

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12/01/2022

🇺🇸 🇷🇴 Message of the U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on the occasion of Romania's National Day:

"On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Romania as you celebrate Great Union Day and remember the unification of your country more than 100 years ago.

This is a special year, as we recognize the 25th anniversary of the strategic partnership between the United States and Romania. Our relationship is strong because it is built on shared values and a mutual commitment to peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world. My visit to Bucharest earlier this week illustrates the strength of our close and continuing cooperation on many issues, including security, as we stand united with our Allies and partners in response to Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war against Ukraine.

I wish the people of Romania a very happy national day and look forward to growing our partnership even stronger in the year ahead."

12/01/2022

"Valorile și idealurile în care au crezut și pentru care s-au jertfit înaintașii noștri (…) sunt temelia României puternice.
La mulți ani, dragi români!
La mulți ani, România!"

Președintele României, Klaus Iohannis

12/01/2022

The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has decided to include “The art of the shirt – an element of cultural identity in Romania and the Republic of Moldova” on the List of Intangible Heritage of Humanity. A great achievement for all those who fought for this dream and a wonderful present for the National Day of Romania, celebrated today!

🇷🇴 Happy Birthday, Romania! La mulți ani tuturor românilor, oriunde pe glob își poartă cu mândrie cămașa cu altiță!

📷: Asociația Semne Cusute, 2019 | Talking with Matisse, Centre Pompidou, Paris

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12/01/2022

🇷🇴 🇺🇦 that Romania supports the initiative “Grain from Ukraine” along with more than 30 other countries? The announcement was made by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who stated that the “Grain from Ukraine” initiative has become the largest Ukrainian humanitarian initiative; more than 180 million dollars have already been accumulated for it.

12/01/2022

12/01/2022

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11/30/2022

🇷🇴 Coming up soon: "Freedom on the Line: The Romanian Revolution of 1989"

We are proud to partner with the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Museum in Washington, DC, and Romanian Cultural Institute in New York / ICR New York for an evening of conversation & film that revisits the most seminal moment in Romania’s recent history, the Revolution of 1989, which set the foundation for a tremendous development that transformed a decrepit, isolated communist dictatorship into a thriving democracy, part of NATO and the European Union.

👥 Held under the patronage of Romanian Ambassador Andrei Muraru, who will offer the opening remarks together with Ambassador Andrew Bremberg, the Director of the Museum. Featuring a stellar panel of experts in the history of communism in Romania and Eastern Europe: Professor Dennis Deletant, Woodrow Wilson Public Policy Fellow; Dorin Tudoran, famous anti-communist dissident, poet, essayist, and journalist; and Professor Melissa Feinberg, Professor of History and Department Chair at Rutgers University. Moderated by the RCI Director, Dorian Branea.

🎞 The evening will conclude with a screening of Dobrivoie Kerpen*san’s documentary, Rebels with a Cause (2019, running time: 55’), about the Revolution of Timișoara and how it changed the life of some of its protagonists, met again 25 years after.

📋 The event will take place at the Victims of Communism Memorial Museum in Washington, DC on Friday, December 2, 2022 at 6 pm. Please RSVP by November 29 at [email protected]

11/30/2022

: One of the oldest coffee houses in Bucharest was reopened this month, in the Old Town, in a historic building, attested in 1812 and deeply integrated in the story, culture and art of the city.

✅ Under the name “Cafeneaua Veche 9”, the venue was once a meeting place for the elite, hosting personalities such as poet Mihai Eminescu, playwright Ion Luca Caragiale, and even King Carol II.

✅ Also, another landmark historical building in downtown Bucharest was reopened this month, after 80 years: “Casa Mița Biciclista”. “Casa Mița Biciclista” („Mița the Cyclist House”), a famous historical building in the center of Bucharest, enters a new stage as it is set to become a space dedicated to the creative urban community.

✅ The name of the house recalls the appellation of the owner Maria Mihăescu, the first woman from Bucharest who rode a bicycle, known for the extravagant and luxurious life she led.

11/29/2022

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11/29/2022

NATO Multinational Battlegroup in Romania 🇷🇴 gets to work

Hear from troops in NATO’s multinational battlegroup Romania who are deployed to protect Alliance territory

Romania hosts, for the first time, a formal meeting of foreign ministers from NATO member countries, between November 29-30, 2022 at the Palace of the Parliament, in Bucharest.

11/29/2022

that Romania had the highest economic growth in the European Union between 2000 and 2022, of almost 800%, according to a chart made by the Amazing Maps portal? The map was compiled using the Statista database for each country's GDP from 2000 to 2022, using current prices.

11/29/2022

🇷🇴 🇺🇸 Primirea de către Președintele României, Klaus Iohannis, a secretarului de stat al SUA, Antony Blinken

🇷🇴 🇺🇸 Meeting of the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis with the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken

11/29/2022

🇷🇴 🇺🇸 Consultările politice bilaterale ale ministrului afacerilor externe, Bogdan Aurescu, cu secretarul de stat al Statelor Unite ale Americii, Antony Blinken

🇷🇴 🇺🇸 Bilateral political consultations between Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken

11/28/2022

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11/28/2022

that Romania will host a formal meeting of foreign ministers from NATO member countries for the first time ever? The meeting will take place on November 29-30, 2022 at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest.

✔️ Minister of foreign affairs Bogdan Aurescu will represent Romania and host the meeting together with NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg.

✔️ The meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs is the first event of its kind held in Romania since our country joined the Alliance in 2004, and the second formal Allied meeting after the Bucharest Summit in 2008. It is also the first high-level NATO meeting to be held in a state on the Eastern flank, on the Alliance's front line of defence, since the outbreak of Russia's brutal aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

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📷: Ministerul Afacerilor Externe/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania

11/28/2022

that the 2021 edition of The George Enescu International Festival has just been shortlisted for The International Opera Awards, the music world's equivalent of the Oscars? George Enescu Festival is nominated for The International Opera Awards 2022 in the FESTIVAL category, alongside Donizetti Festival (Bergamo), Garsington Opera, Leipzig Opera Wagner 22, Santa Fe Opera and Savonlinna Festival, for including innovative opera performances in its programme.

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📷: Image from Te Deum Opera during the Enescu Festival 2021 | festivalenescu.ro

11/28/2022

🇷🇴 🇺🇸 The U.S. Department of State: The United States and Romania: Strategic Partners for 25 Years

„This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Strategic Partnership between the United States and Romania. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Bucharest, Romania November 28-30 for a meeting of the NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs and will meet with senior Romanian officials, including President Klaus Iohannis and Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu.

President Clinton announced the Strategic Partnership during a historic visit to Romania in 1997. Speaking at Bucharest’s University Square, he said “[we] have agreed to establish a Strategic Partnership between our nations, a partnership important to America because Romania is important to America—important in your own right and important as a model in this difficult part of the world. Romania can show the people of this region and, indeed, people throughout the world that there is a better way than fighting and division and repression. It is cooperation and freedom and peace. Our friendship will en­dure the test of time. As long as you proceed down democracy’s road, America will walk by your side.”

For the past 25 years, the United States and Romania have walked that road together and strengthened bilateral relations, supported Romania’s democratic development and Euro-Atlantic integration, fostered shared prosperity, and worked together to face regional and global challenges. Our Strategic Partnership is rooted in a shared commitment to democratic values, including the rule of law, open markets, respect for and the promotion of human rights, and the strong bonds between the peoples of Romania and the United States.”

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11/28/2022

🇷🇴 🇺🇸 Aniversarea Parteneriatului Strategic România-SUA le dă întâlnire prietenilor americani în „Zona Liberă”

✅ Aniversarea celor 25 de ani de la semnarea Parteneriatului Strategic dintre România și Statele Unite ale Americii ajunge, la final, chiar în „Zona Liberă”, ultimul proiect al unei ample serii de evenimente culturale de anvergură, realizate, de-a lungul întregului an, de către Ambasada României la Washington împreună cu Romanian Cultural Institute in New York / ICR New York.

✅ „Zona Liberă” este un disc de vinil cu destinație protocolară, realizat cu sprijinul financiar al Băncii Transilvania, și creat special cu ocazia acestui important jubileu al relațiilor româno-americane, ce cuprinde populare melodii înregistrate la casa de producție Electrecord de celebri interpreți din România ultimelor decenii, dar remixate de câțiva dintre cei mai populari DJ români ai momentului: Dj Vasile, Electric Brother, Matze, Nemos, NSK, K-lu, Dribbler.

✅ Discul urmează să fie oferit prietenilor și partenerilor României din rândul elitelor politice, diplomatice și culturale americane.

✅ „The Free Zone / Zona Liberă” este un album conceput de artistul vizual, curatorul, promotorul cultural și universitarul Mihai Zgondoiu (Zgondy) împreună cu DJ Vasile, compozitor, interpret și moderator radio, unul dintre cei mai importanți inovatori ai muzicii românești contemporane.

✅ Titlul discului trimite deopotrivă la mișcarea civică de democratizare a României de la începutul anilor 1990 („Zona liberă de neocomunism”), cât și la populara emisiune radio realizată de DJ Vasile împreună cu DJ Matze, un alt influent muzician.

✅ În același timp, „Zona Liberă” repune în circulație, într-un mod creativ și actualizat, o parte semnificativă, dar parțial uitată, a memoriei culturale românești. Piesele originale pe care se bazează reinterpretările contemporane adunate pe acest disc aparțin catalogului Electrecord, singura companie de producție din România din timpul dictaturii comuniste, care a reprezentat, de-a lungul mai multor decenii, pentru mulți compozitori și interpreți, un spațiu de exprimare artistică relativ liberă în care influențele americane/vestice și ideile au fost mereu prezente dincolo de cenzură. Ca atare, titlul discului evocă un spațiu de libertate și schimb cultural, care sunt valori de bază ale relației transatlantice româno-americane.

✅ Imprimat într-o ediţie aniversară limitată, de 500 de cópii, discul cuprinde 8 piese remixate și reinterpetate, în următoarea ordine: Bună dimineața, micuță stea / Good Morning, Little Star - Aurelian Andreescu (Electric Brother remix), De va veni la tine vântul / Should the Wind Come to You - Mondial (Matze remix), Opriți timpul / Stop Time - Corina Chiriac (Nemos remix), Totul vine de la sine/ Everything Comes Naturally – Muzica planetelor (NSK cu Mara remix), Dragă-mi este dragostea / Endearing Love - Aura Urziceanu (K-lu remix), Pământul deocamdată / Earth, for the Time Being - Mircea Vintilă (Dribbler a.k.a. Nave spațiale remix), Să fim copii / Let’s Be Children - Mihaela Runceanu (K-lu remix), Unde ești / Where Are You - Margareta Pâslaru (Argatu remix).

👉 Link în comentarii pentru a asculta melodiile.

11/28/2022

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11/26/2022

🔝There are only a few days left until the Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers , which the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu will host in Bucharest, on behalf of Romania, between November 29-30, 2022.

🔵This is the first meeting in this format organized by Romania since joining the North Atlantic Alliance and the second formal high-level NATO event hosted by Romania, after the Bucharest Summit in 2008.

🔵Also, between November 28-29, 2022, the Munich Leaders Meeting will take place in Bucharest. Munich Leaders Meetings bring together an exclusive group of high-level participants to discuss current foreign and security policy challenges with particular emphasis on a specific regional context.

11/25/2022

🇷🇴 🇺🇸 The Chief of Defence Staff, General Daniel Petrescu, met with the Commanding General of the US Army Europe and Africa (USAREUR AF), General Darryl A. Williams, this week.

✅ The talks of the two officials focused on the consolidation of the Allied defensive capacity on NATO’s Eastern flank, the US forces’ posture in Romania and the training of the Romanian and American soldiers by means of major training events.

✅ The visit agenda also includes meetings at the HQ Multinational Corps South-East and the Land Forces Staff.

✅ The Commanding General of USAREUR-AF paid an official visit to Romania, over November22-24, 2022 at the invitation of the Chief of Land Forces Staff.

📷: Daniel Petrescu

11/25/2022

🇷🇴 🇺🇸 The U.S. Department of State announced that Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Bucharest, Romania November 28-30, where he will attend the NATO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. The NATO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting will focus on Russia’s war against Ukraine, implementation of NATO’s new Strategic Concept, including challenges from the People’s Republic of China, energy security, protection of critical infrastructure, and NATO’s efforts to build capacity and strengthen resilience in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, and Moldova, according to a press statement.

✅ While in Bucharest, Secretary Blinken and Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă will tour the exhibit – We the People – 25 Years of Strategic Partnership – which celebrates key moments in the U.S.-Romania partnership since 1997.

✅ Secretary Blinken will have separate meetings with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and will attend a working dinner with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

📷: State Department / Flickr
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11/25/2022

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11/25/2022

🇷🇴 🇺🇸 Andrew Bremberg, President and CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C paid a visit to Romania this week, during which he met with Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă; with Marcel Ciolacu, President of the Chamber of Deputies; with Remus Pricopie, rector of the National School of Political and Administrative Studies and members of the Romanian Parliament: Alexandru Muraru, Pavel Popescu, Ben Oni Ardelean. Also, Andrew Bremberg visited the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania and the Memory of the Romanian Exile.

✅ The discussions between Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă and Andrew Bremberg concerned the foundation's initiative to build a Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., the first stage of the project having been inaugurated in June this year, namely the setting up of an intermediate museum, near the White House.

✅ Andrew Bremberg welcomed Romania's initiative to support the construction of the museum, given the fact that, recently, a legislative project was submitted in Parliament by 87 senators and deputies, including Prime Minister Ciucă, which provides for the donation of an amount worth 3 million US dollars. He extended an invitation to the Romanian Prime Minister to give a lecture at the museum opened in Washington.

✅ During the meeting with the leadership of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania / Institutul de Investigare a Crimelor Comunismului it was agreed to conclude a partnership between the two institutions, a partnership that will include the development of joint educational programs, both at the content level and in terms of the manner of disseminating information. IICCMER will also make available artifacts and other materials to be displayed in the Foundation's Victims of Communism Museum in Washington DC. The possibility of opening an academic program of Romanian Studies within the Foundation was also discussed.

📷: Guvernul României, Pavel Popescu, Ben Oni Ardelean, Școala Națională de Studii Politice și Administrative - SNSPA