A little-known pro-Russian candidate won the first round of Romania’s presidential election after an unprecedented backlash ...

Nobody in Romania saw the presidential election upset coming — not the public, not the pundits — and not the first-round ...

Romania’s presidential election was upended by a nationalist who has voiced admiration for Russia’s Vladimir Putin, setting ...

Over 1,000 youths gathered in Bucharest, protesting against far-right nationalist candidate Calin Georgescu, who won 23% in ...

(JTA) — A politician who praised notorious Romanian antisemites and Nazi collaborators has won the first round of his country ...

She added: “Let us be very clear, Calin Georgescu is an open admirer of Vladimir Putin. He is open against Nato and the European Union … He is for Romania’s isolation, which he calls ...

She added: “Let us be very clear, Calin Georgescu is an open admirer of Vladimir Putin. He is open against NATO and the European Union … He is for Romania’s isolation, which he calls neutrality ...

Calin Georgescu took 22 per cent of the vote with ... In a 2020 interview, he called Putin one of the world’s few true leaders and said the Russian president loves his country regardless of ...

Putin-praising candidate Calin Georgescu appears to be on track to make it to the final round of the presidential elections in Romania. Georgescu is leading with 22 percent, followed closely by ...

With more than 99 per cent of votes counted, ultranationalist Calin Georgescu, a far-right, pro-Russia candidate, has an unassailable lead in the Romanian presidential election of nearly 350,000 ...