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– 2008: Engineer Dan Mateescu died; theoretical and experimental studies in
the field of metal construction (the dome of the National Exhibition Pavilion in

Bucharest, the metal structure of the power plants at the Iron Gates I and II,
etc.); full member of the Romanian Academy since 1974 (b. 1911)

– 2008: Dan Grigorescu, art critic and historian, literary critic and historian,
essayist, English writer, translator and professor of comparative literature,

died; full member of the Romanian Academy since 2004 (b. 1931)

– 2014 – Nina Cassian (real name: Renée Annie Cassian), poet, prose writer
and translator, author of lieder and chamber music, settled in the USA since
1985 (b. 1924) – 10 years

– 2015: The icon painter Maria Deac Poenariu, included in 2010 by the Ministry

of Culture in the program "Living Human Treasures – Custodians and
Transmitters of Culture" initiated by UNESCO, died; she was the last

representative of the Poenaru painters from the village of Laz, iconographers
who developed a special aesthetic style and a true school of painting on the

Sebeş Valley, starting with 1770 (b. 1923)

– 2016: Alexandru Neculae Boriga, statistician, engineer and professor, died;

Outstanding contributions to athletic statistics (b. 1944)

EXTERNAL EVENTS

– Brussels: Informal meeting of EU energy ministers (15 – 16 Apr.)

-Strasbourg: A debate on Kosovo's application for membership of the Council
of Europe and the vote on a draft opinion will be the highlight of the spring
session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). There

will also be a joint debate on "The death of Alexei Navalny and the need to
counter Vladimir Putin's totalitarian regime and his war on democracy", and

on "The arbitrary detention of Vladimir Kara-Murza and the systematic
persecution of anti-war protesters in Russia and Belarus", together with a third

report proposing targeted sanctions against those involved in the detention,