In the night of August 20 the Ukrainian Volodymyr Rozumny was restrained by police men after a birthday party spent copious together with a fellow countryman with Romanian citizenship. Intervention troops, judicial police, secret services and whole weeks of spying in the countryside and Bucharest.By Stefan Candea and Sorin Ozon

The privatization of Romania's oil industry has enriched the well-connected - and corrupt. Here's the case of Iosif Dan, a top advisor to Romanian President Ion Iliescu.Dan had accepted money from a petroleum company vying for a piece of the country's oil-privatization action. By Paul Cristian Radu