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Famous Romanian librarian Avram Iancu, the first swimmer who managed to break a new record on October 31, 2018 by swimming the Black Sea, no less than 680km from Sulina to Istanbul without protection neoprene bathing suit, has now accepted…

Romanian athlete Avram Iancu will swim in Balaton Lake in Hungary, the largest lake in Central Europe, on Wednesday, August 3. The Romanian swimmer eyes to remain in the water for at least 43 hours and 16 minutes, thus bringing down the…

Librarian Avram Iancu became the first Romanian to swim across the Bristol Channel, which separates England from Wales. Although the distance in a straight line is about 25 kilometers, the well-known endurance sports practitioner swam…

Romanian climber Adrian Ahriţculesei, aged 36, from Petrosani town, has managed to conquer the highest volcano in the world, Ojos del Salado (6,893m high),  located in the Andes Mountains, on the Argentine-Chile border. He posted the…

The June 13-15, 1990 ‘Miners’ riot file’, in which former President Ion Iliescu (photo 2), former Prime Minister Petre Roman and former SRI Director Virgil Magureanu have been sued for crimes against humanity, will return to the…

A miner has suffered burns of degrees II and III on Tuesday, at Lupeni coalmine, on 30% of his body, after an accident occurred underground and has been taken to the Petrosani Emergency Hospital. The 42-year old miner has suffered burns on…

Vlad Adrian Crisan Pop won the 120-mile race, the short version of the "6633 Arctic Ultra" ultra-marathon of the North Polar Circle, as he signed up in this contest with the intention of raising scholarship money for cancer-affected…

The Arad mayor, PNL’s Gheorghe Falca, has rejected the comments made by some social-democrat politicians, who said the Western Alliance could put at risk Romania’s territorial integrity. Falca says that in 2014, upon the proposal of the…

After 60 days of continuous effort, Romanian Avram Iancu has managed to break a new record on October 31, 2018 by swimming the Black Sea, no less than 680km from Sulina to Istanbul without protection neoprene bathing suit. The…

Avram Iancu, the librarian from Petrosani who swam the Danube River without neoprene suit, being the first man to ever cross the river from the place where it originates to the place where the river empties into the Black Sea, wants to set…