Today that same church spire stands as a monument to a village lost under a lake of slurry. In the spring of 1977, prospectors representing the government of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu ...

This is the tenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Logic would suggest the MAGA universe should be stampeding to Romania to rally behind Georgescu, as they have done for the similarly liberal-baiting Prime Minister Viktor Orban in neighboring Hungary.