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Realitatea TV (Romanian pronunciation: [re.aliˈtate̯a teˈve], meaning "The Reality TV") is a Romanian news television network. The channel is distributed by many cable operators in Romania and Moldova. Its main owner is Romanian businessman Elan Schwartzenberg.

Realitatea TV is also available via the DTH platform Digi TV in Serbia, in the Romanian language extra package.

Although it began broadcasting in 2001 as a general-profile television, Realitatea TV soon became the first ever 24-hour Romanian news television (2002).

The station's programming lineup consists of newscasts, talk shows, debates and analysis, science and IT, TV magazines, and any form of informative program chosen by the editorial policy of the station or marketing research. This news channel brought together some of the most important media personalities in Romania: Mihai Tatulici, Stelian Tănase, Cristian Tudor Popescu,^[2] Emil Hurezeanu, Mircea Dinescu.

History[link]

First decade and evolution under Silviu Prigoană and Sorin Ovidiu Vântu

Realitatea TV started broadcasting in 2001, as a general-profile TV station. However, it began broadcasting hourly newscasts and soon changed its format, becoming the first news television in Romania. Prigoană brought Ion Cristoiu to supervise the channel and rise its audience.

Since 2003, Realitatea TV has been the local broadcasting partner of CNN, being able to train its journalists through CNN's International Professional Program. In 2011 CNN signed a new partnership with Antena 3 instead. In 2004 Silviu Prigoană sold the network to an italian company that later sold it to Petrom, which subsequently lost it to Sorin Ovidiu Vântu, sometime in 2006. Vântu was occasionally accused of using his television to manipulate public opinion against President Băsescu and his party.

Elan Schwarzenberg, RTV split and beyond

Publicly accused of manipulating polls and attacking Băsescu by using his channel against him, Vântu signed a managing contract with Sebastian Ghiță, owner and manager of Asesoft. Arrested and tired of being accused of manipulation, Vântu eventually sold Realitatea to Elan Schwarzenberg.

Both Vântu and Schwarzenberg reportedly encountered problems with Ghiță, the conflict ending in dividing Realitatea journalists between Elan Schwarzenberg's new headquarters, at Willbrook Platnum building in Bucharest and Ghiță's headquarters at Casa Presei Libere, where the new RTV channel was born, despite Schwarzenberg's protests and accusations that Asesoft stole his TV equipment.

Some of the international personalities interviewed through the years by Realitatea TV are: Saad Hariri, the son of the Lebanese Prime-Minister Rafik Hariri, killed in a bomb-attack in 2005, Abd al-Bari Atwan, the Palestinian journalist who spent 3 days in a cave with Ossama Bin Laden, Prince Charles and even former US President George W. Bush.

Logos[link]

Since its founding, the channel has changed its appearance seven times, and four times its logo.

• Realitatea TV Logo2001.png

  The logo used between 2001 and 2002.

• Realitatea TV Logo2002.png

  The logo used between 2002 and 2004.

• Realitatea TV Logo2004.png

  The logo used between 2004 and 2006.

• Realitatea TV Logo2006.png

  The logo used between 2006 and 2007.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Site
• The Money Channel Official Site

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Dan Puric
Puric in April 2012
Born	Dan Puric (1959-02-12) February 12, 1959 (age 53) Buzău, Buzău County, Romania
Occupation	Actor, director

Dan Puric (Romanian pronunciation: [dan ˈpurik]; born February 12, 1959) is a Romanian actor, director, and pantomime artist. He is also known as a Christian Orthodox apologist.^[1][2]

Biography[link]

He graduated in 1978 from the fine arts high school Nicolae Tonitza in Bucharest, and in 1985 from the Institute of Theatrical and Cinematographic Arts, Bucharest. Between 1985 and 1988, he was an actor at the Botoşani Theater. Nowadays, he is an actor at the National Theatre Bucharest.^[3] His shows - Toujours l'amour, Made in Romania, Costumele (The Costumes), Don Quijote - have been played in many countries. He played the main role in Broken Youth. He also played in films for the public television in Lausanne, Switzerland.^[4]

In 2000, Dan Puric received the Order of the Star of Romania with the Knight rank, for "exceptional services in culture".^[5]

References[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Dan Puric

Emil Boc
Prime Minister of Romania
In office 22 December 2008 – 6 February 2012
President	Traian Băsescu
Deputy	Dan Nica Béla Markó
Preceded by	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Succeeded by	Cătălin Predoiu (Acting)
Minister of Education, Research and Innovation Acting
In office 2 October 2009 – 23 December 2009
Preceded by	Ecaterina Andronescu
Succeeded by	Daniel Funeriu
Mayor of Cluj-Napoca
In office 12 July 2004 – 22 December 2008
Preceded by	Gheorghe Funar
Succeeded by	Sorin Apostu
Personal details
Born	(1966-09-06) 6 September 1966 (age 45) Răchiţele, Romania (now Mărgău)
Political party	Democratic Liberal Party
Spouse(s)	Oana Boc
Website	Official website

Emil Boc (Romanian pronunciation: [eˈmil ˈbok]; born September 6, 1966) is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 22 December 2008 until his resignation on 6 February 2012. In June 2004, he was elected Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city in Transylvania. Boc is also the president of the Democratic Liberal Party, which designated him as Prime Minister in 2008. On October 13, 2009, his cabinet fell after losing a motion of no confidence in Parliament. He was acting as the head of an interim cabinet until a new Prime Minister and cabinet were confirmed by Parliament. On December 17, 2009, he was given a mandate by President Traian Băsescu to form a new government, afterwards receiving the vote of confidence from parliament.

On 6 February 2012, Boc submitted his resignation to the president, citing the need to "defuse political and social tension" over austerity cuts.^[1]

Personal life[link]

Emil was born to Ioan and Ana Boc in the village of Răchiţele, commune Mărgău, Cluj County; he has three older brothers (Ioan, Gheorghe, and Traian) and one sister (Dorina). Emil Boc and his wife Oana, a university lecturer whom he married in July 1994, have two daughters, Cezara and Patricia. He and his family belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church.^[2]

Political career[link]

Boc's entrance into mainstream Romanian politics was in 2003, when he was elected executive president of the Democratic Party; he had been proposed by Traian Băsescu. His original job was to define clearly the Democratic Party's identity so that it would not be confused with the National Liberal Party.^[3]

Mayor of Cluj-Napoca[link]

He assumed the position of mayor after the 2004 election victory against the far right nationalist Gheorghe Funar, who had been mayor of Cluj-Napoca for twelve years. In that election, Funar lost out in the first round to both Boc and the Social Democratic Party candidate Ioan Rus. Boc went on to defeat Rus in a run-off election. In the 2008 election, Boc received 76.2% of the vote, avoiding a second round.^[4] He almost died in May 2006 because of a bad fall during a TV show.^[5]

Prime Minister of Romania[link]

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Following the 2008 legislative elections, the Democratic Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party joined forces to form a government. President Traian Băsescu initially nominated Theodor Stolojan as Prime Minister, but, following Stolojan's withdrawal, on December 15 Boc was nominated as head of government and was confirmed by Parliament on December 22, 2008.

Boc's government fell after a vote of no confidence in the Parliament on October 13, 2009.^[6] The vote followed the collapse of his ruling coalition, which was caused by his ousting of Dan Nica, the interior minister.^[7] Boc acted as interim Prime Minister until a new government was to take charge. The opposition parliamentary groups proposed Klaus Iohannis as a candidate, but President Traian Băsescu nominated Lucian Croitoru, and after his failing to obtain the Parliament confirmation for his government, he nominated Liviu Negoiţă. Eventually, Boc was reinstated as Prime Minister after the presidential elections ended with the victory of incumbent president Traian Băsescu who supported him.

On 6th February 2012, Boc resigned from office amid ongoing anti-austerity protests.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

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• Official site

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Remus Cernea
Remus Cernea (feb 2011)
Green Movement candidate for President of Romania
Opponent(s)	Traian Băsescu, Crin Antonescu, Mircea Geoană and others
Incumbent	Traian Băsescu
Personal details
Born	(1974-06-25) June 25, 1974 (age 38) Bucharest, Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Political party	Green Movement
Residence	Bucharest
Alma mater	University of Bucharest
Religion	none
Website	http://www.remuscernea.ro/

Remus Cernea (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈremus ˈt͡ʃernea]; born June 25, 1974) is a Romanian activist against discrimination based on faith and religion, an advocate of the separation of church and state and the founder of the Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience Association.

He ran in the 2009 Romanian presidential election, and was a candidate for Green Party, gaining over 60,000 votes, or a share of 0.62% of the votes. In October 2010, he left the Green Party over ideological differences and created the Green Movement (Mișcarea Verzilor).

Biography[link]

Born in Bucharest, he lived in Hunedoara for 14 years, where his father worked as a geologist, then moved back to Bucharest in 1988. In 1998, he founded the Noesis Cultural Society, an organization which edited the first Romanian e-books and multimedia encyclopedias dedicated to subjects of the Romanian culture: a CD-ROM containing 50 ebooks and encyclopedias about Ion Luca Caragiale and Constantin Brâncuşi.^[1][2] These projects earned the Noesis Society the prize for the best educational product (2002 edition) given by the Presidency of Romania.^[2][3]

Cernea studied philosophy at the University of Bucharest. He graduated in 2002, but he refused to get his diploma, as he claims he studied at the university just out of his passion for philosophy.^[4]

In 2003, he founded the Association "Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience", a secularist and humanist organization which militates for freedom of thought, separation of church and state and against discrimination based on faith and religion.^[5]

Cernea published in 2007 a book of essays and articles named "Manifest împotriva becalizării României" (A Manifest Against the Becalization of Romania), in which he argues that the "Becalization" (derived from the name of Gigi Becali, a nationalist politician who stresses his allegiance to the Orthodox Church) is threatening the values of an open society.^[6]

Views[link]

Cernea argues that in Romania there is an "unacceptable collusion between the politicians and the Church",^[7] and that although officially there is a separation of Church and state, practically, the Romanian Orthodox Church and the state are "intimately linked".^[8] He considers himself a "freethinker", which he describes as being more encompassing than the term of "atheist", considering the term of atheist a bit too limited and wanting to retain an "area of speculation and openness".^[9]

His 2009 electoral platform was based on 10 points which he details on his blog and include: supporting conciliation and dialog within the Romanian society, supporting human rights and fight against discrimination, closer ties with Romania's neighbours, supporting green technologies, sustainable development and green agriculture, increase in funding for education and research to 10% of the Romanian GDP, freer election system that is more fair to smaller parties, full separation of church and state and a national dialog on social issues such as legalization of prostitution, the problem of drugs and the recognition of heterosexual and homosexual civil unions.^[10]

Political activity[link]

In 1997, as a protest toward the nationalism found in Romanian politics, Cernea joined the ethnic Hungarian party, the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, despite being ethnically Romanian.^[4]

Cernea announced his intention to run as a Green Party candidate in the January 17, 2010 by-election for the Chamber of Deputies seat (in the Sector 1 of Bucharest), vacated after the appointment of Bogdan Olteanu as deputy governor of the National Bank,^[11] however, the Bucharest Central Municipal Bureau rejected his candidature, because he is not a member of a parliamentary party, as the law requires in case of a by-election.^[12] The appeal of the decision and of the constitutionality of the law were rejected and Cernea announced he wants to dispute the law at the European Court of Human Rights.^[13]

2009 Presidential election[link]

In August 2009, Cernea announced his intention of running for presidency as a candidate of the Green Party.^[14] He and the Green Party gathered the needed 200,000 signatures and submitted them to Electoral Bureau on the last day before the beginning of the electoral campaign, October 23, 2008.^[15]

In an interview for Evenimentul Zilei, Cernea said that he wants to offer an alternative to the mainstream politics and he tries to attract the 60-70% of the voters who are disappointed by the politicians and do not want to go to the polls.^[16] Although Cernea tried to obtain a debate, no candidate from the top three parties accepted a debate involving him.^[17]

Cernea's political campaign was especially visible on the Internet, having the most Facebook supporters of all the candidates.^[18] He says that unlike the top candidates' campaigns, his campaign was exclusively based on the enthusiasm of some young volunteers who helped him purely through pro-bono work.^[17]

Cernea was the 8th out of 12 candidates, gaining 60,539 votes, or a share of 0.62%.^[19] The highest percentages were in the Bucharest sectors 3 (1.13%) and 6 (1.04%), Cluj County (0.9%) and among the voters abroad (1.0%).^[20]

Campaigns[link]

Church in the University courtyard[link]

In 1998, the Philosophy and Law departments of the University of Bucharest shared a building and in its courtyard, it was decided to build a church. After the place was hallowed, Cernea, who was studying philosophy at the University, together with three other students, wrote a letter of protest, organized a conference about the subject and gathered 150 signatures against the building of the church. The Association of Christian Orthodox students gathered a list of 3000 signatures supporting the building of the church.^[21]

As the scandal was booming, the rector decided to defuse it by banning any conference on the subject. The project of the building of the church was cancelled and the Orthodox icons in the University classrooms were removed.^[21]

Icons in schools[link]

According to Cernea, following the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu, in schools, his portraits were replaced with Romanian Orthodox icons.^[8] In 2005, Emil Moise, a philosophy teacher from Buzău began a campaign against the display of religious items in schools.^[22] Cernea's association supported his case for the removal of icons from schools, arguing that the religious symbols represent a discrimination against non-Orthodox children and an infringement against the neutrality of the state.^[22] Additionally, as 90% of the schools held religious services, Cernea argued that this practice was also illegal, as the Romanian penal code bans forcing anyone to participate to any religious ceremony.^[23]

The movement against icons in schools generated a large debate in the Romanian society and media. In CNCD Decision 323/2006, the National Council for Combating Discrimination ruled that the display of religious icons was discriminatory. However, the Ministry of Education argued that it cannot remove the icons because they were not the ones who put them there in the first place^[8] and that local communities should decide whether to keep the icons or not.^[24]

Romanian People Salvation Cathedral[link]

The Romanian People Salvation Cathedral is a large-scale cathedral construction project envisioned by the Romanian Orthodox Church. The government of Romania originally wanted the cathedral to be built it in the place of Carol Park, but following protests, including those organized by the Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience Association,^[25] it changed the plans.

Finally, in 2007, the state gave the Orthodox Church about 11 hectares of land in central Bucharest, next to the Palace of the Parliament and it promised it will pay partly the construction costs. Cernea argued that both the donation of the terrain and giving the additional funds represent a misuse of state funds and illegal.^[26]

The Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience Association also contested the name "Romanian People Salvation Cathedral", arguing that it has nationalistic overtones, by linking being Romanian to affiliation to the Orthodox Church.^[26]

School curriculum[link]

In 2007, Cernea's association announced that the new curriculum of Romania had quietly removed the requirement of teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution from biology textbooks, as well as the debate on the existence of God (the study of Voltaire, Camus and Nietzsche), from philosophy textbooks.^[27]

Cernea argues that the current curriculum lacks the scientific and philosophical points of view, but in the same time, in religion classes, the seven-day creationism is taught, distorting the children's understanding of how the world came into being.^[28]

In February 2008, his association asked the Ministry of Education to re-introduce explicitly the theory of evolution in the biology curriculum, arguing that Romania is the only European country in which it is not studied in detail^[29] and organized a protest in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Education for the reintroduction of evolution in the curriculum.^[30]

In a 2009 interview for Dilema Veche, Cernea says that there are not only textbooks that do not describe evolution, but there are some approved textbooks that teach creationism. He argues that the school curriculum is particularly important, since it influences the high school students' choice of university study and that this is why in Romania there's a huge number of those studying theology, with a dwindling number of students studying sciences.^[31]

Other initiatives[link]

In 2006, the association organized a concert against the new law regulating religion in Romania, which banned "religious defamation". In the concert participated Luna Amara, Vama, Sarmalele Reci among others.^[32] In May 2007, he organized a small-scale protest against president Traian Băsescu's racist and sexist affirmations,^[33] and in August 2007, the association argued against the practice at the national radio station of beginning the programme with a reading of Lord's Prayer.^[34]

In August 2009, he protested against a law project made by the Romanian Government, which would have increased the number of signatures needed for running in the presidential elections to 500,000 and also required a €300,000 sum to be paid as a bail, only to be returned if the candidate gets a certain percentage. Cernea argued that this breaks the free and fair election standards found in Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters of the Council of Europe and that it would monopolize the elections to those "rich and corrupt". Prime Minister Emil Boc, however, announced that the law project would be dropped.^[35]

Books[link]

• Remus Cernea, Manifest împotriva becalizării României ISBN 978-973-733-192-2, Tritonic 2007

References[link]

External links[link]

• (Romanian) remuscernea.ro: Official site
• (English) Romanian Humanist Association
• www.humanism.ro: Solidaritatea pentru libertatea de conştiinţă
• "Manifest împotriva becalizării României", at Tritonic publishing house