Last Friday it had been 11 years since the catastrophic fire at the Colectiv nightclub claimed 65 lives. DIICOT prosecutors say a fire near an industrial platform was sabotaged by Russian operatives; the Russian ambassador was summoned. And the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant, good for 20% of the country’s electricity generation, will remain offline throughout November.

Read further in Romanian Dispatch #60 (1 November 2026).