Romanian academic renounces SNSPA award after Donald Trump’s nomination for Nobel prize

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The Bucharest-based SNSPA university, led by Remus Pricopie, announced the nomination in an official statement.

Romania for an alleged abandonment of democratic values. The announcement was even more controversial as SNSPA is generally viewed as a rare threshold of the Western-style, left-wing progressivism in an otherwise majority conservative country.

As a result, many have criticized the university, a wave culminating with Vladimir Tismăneanu’s announcement.

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, and Romania is reportedly facing difficulties in establishing contacts with the Trump administration.

Vladimir Tismăneanu served as president of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania from March to December 2006. Between February 2010 and May 2012, he was the president of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER).

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