Today is the 7th anniversary of the downing of MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. Here's what happened:

Spanish edition coming soon. Thank you, Oberon Libros! Oberon Libros Nadia Comaneci y la policía secreta. Historias de la guerra fría oberonlibros.com//libro/nadia-c…

🧵1/10 Q&A with Dr. Stejarel Olaru, author of Nadia and The Secret Police. Use discount code GymCastic to order: bloomsbury.com/us/nadia-coman…

Nadia Comaneci la niña deportista que nos enamoró en Montreal 1976. Una historia repleta de triunfos y vicisitudes. El camino de la libertad es muy duro.

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intercepted conversations of Russian soldiers together... Russkiy Mir.

⭐NOVEDAD⭐ La historia de una de las mejores atletas de todos los tiempos, #NadiaComaneci, la primera en lograr la puntuación perfecta.🔟 stejărel olaru presenta los inicios de Nadia en la gimnasia, desde sus primeros títulos hasta los Juegos de Montreal.👉bit.ly/42oZL4J

📚 Nadia Comăneci and the Secret Police – stejărel olaru, translated by Alistair Ian Blyth (Bloomsbury Books UK) The world-famous gymnast defected from Romania in 1989 – a new book includes 25,000 pages of surveillance material, writes Alexander Howard (University of Sydney). theconversation.com/olympic-star-n…

A few weeks ago John Malkovich came to Bucharest to film The Yellow Tie, a film about the great conductor Sergiu Celibidache. I really enjoyed talking to John Malkovich about Celibidache and how the Romanian communist secret police monitored him. The subject of my next book.

The French equivalent of #MI6, the #DGSE, is under intense political pressure over its assessments on #Niger. Of course sometimes #intelligence agencies make mistakes...but sometimes the politicians simply don't listen.

Born in Kyiv, brought up in the US, Golda Meir used to say, "I prefer your condemnations to your condolences." She believed in resilience of her people, in the right to be alive & independent. Yet she didn’t believe that things wouldn’t change. She believed killings would stop

Hamas terrorists in their own voices: Listen to the conversation between Hamas operatives as they discuss the failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital on October 17, 2023.

Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape by stejărel olaru, translated by Alistair Ian Blyth, is a gripping account of the life and career of #NadiaComaneci, drawing on the surveillance archive of the #Romanian #secretpolice who monitored her. bit.ly/3FdUkN7

“Nadia Comaneci y la Policía Secreta. Historias de la Guerra Fría” del escritor stejărel olaru fue el centro de nuestra celebración del 1 de diciembre #DíaNacionaldeRumania🇷🇴en El Claustro, a pocos días de que se cumplan 34 años del fin de la dictadura y regreso de la democracia.

Congratulations to Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape by stejărel olaru translated by Alistair Ian Blyth on being chosen as the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner – Silver Medal, World History Order your copy here 📘 bit.ly/4byIU4e

Photo received from friends on vacation in Croatia: a bookstore in Zagreb. "Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police" was published these days in Croatian by Naklada Ljevak Publishing House.

La Razon, Spain: Nadia Comaneci, la vida de película de una leyenda de los Juegos OIímpcios larazon.es/deportes/juego… prin La Razón

Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police by stejărel olaru, translated by Alistair Ian Blyth, is a thrilling tale of endurance and escape, in which one of the world's greatest gymnasts risked everything for freedom. Now in paperback! 📘 bit.ly/3Zu3DDW

🔴 Fallece Bela Karolyi a los 82 años: el rigurosísimo entrenador que llevó a Nadia Comaneci al primer «10 perfecto» y hacía competir a gimnastas lesionadas 👉 El controvertido técnico está detrás de 3 oros, 2 platas y 2 bronces de la gimnastas rumanas lavoz.gal/iooco1

”Spatiul Celibidache”, a book about Sergiu Celibidache, the iconic Romanian conductor and how the security service of the communist regime monitored him for decades in order to recruit him as an informant, and later to persuade him to view his country of origin more favorably.