Shikun and Binui Energy has secured a EUR 49 million loan for the Simleu Silvaniei photovoltaic project of 101 MW in northwest Romania 0 Shikun and Binui Energy said it would sell electricity on the Romanian wholesale market or enter into power purchase agreements (PPAs) directly with electricity trading companies and suppliers enabling the sale of electricity to end customers Simleu Silvaniei is its second project in Romania to reach financial close The solar park is in the final stages of construction Paz: The company’s project pipeline exceeds 1.5 GW The company is currently developing a significant pipeline of solar (841 MW) and wind power (554 MW) projects in Romania it sees significant opportunities in the renewable energy sector in Romania and is strengthening its presence there with a substantial project pipeline exceeding 1.5 GW The solar power plant will be built by CJR Renewables “The current financing agreement marks an important step in realizing our strategy to expand our global operations in renewable energy We are pleased to collaborate once again with Raiffeisen Bank and CJR Renewables who also accompanied us in the Satu Mare project our first venture in Romania,” he said Shikun & Binui Energy won a tender in Israel for a solar power plant of 100 MW to 130 MW with 180 MWh to 240 MWh of storage capacity The project is estimated at USD 120 million to USD 146 million The company is set to operate the facility for 25 years Be the first one to comment on this article 05 May 2025 - The delegations from the two countries met on the sidelines of the 10th summit meeting of the Three Seas Initiative 05 May 2025 - The Trebinje 3 photovoltaic plant would have an installed capacity of 53.63 MW and an estimated annual production of 85.5 GWh 05 May 2025 - VDE Renewables found that SolarEdge’s advanced safety capabilities minimize photovoltaic system risks and effectively prevent fire hazards 02 May 2025 - The project is located in Constanța county recognized for its superior yields in green energy production © CENTER FOR PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2008-2020 website developed by ogitive was deported to Auschwitz with his family in May 1944 He was selected for forced labor and survived “I thought in 1945 antisemitism died in Auschwitz The United Nations has designated January 27 the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau as a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution As we mark the 80th anniversary of that liberation we are witnessing a global surge in antisemitism Join us at the Museum to remember the victims Find more information about visiting the Museum at ushmm.org/visit Learn about survivors who volunteer at the Museum More than 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz Those Jews who were not sent directly to gas chambers were selected for forced labor Auschwitz closed in January 1945 with its liberation by the Soviet army Watch a program recorded during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2023 with Auschwitz survivor Irene Weiss She discovered decades after the Holocaust that the most painful moment of her life had been documented by a Nazi photographer Anatoly Karpov defeated Viswanathan Anand in a controversial FIDE World Championship match Nick DeFirmian won his third US Championship a Grandmaster from Romania by the name Alexandru Crisan emerged with an incredible FIDE rating of 2635 A rating of 2635 may not seem like much by modern standards rating inflation was not as extensive back in 1998 such a rating would put him at 33rd in the world his career at the top was short-lived due to what would go down as one of the most unique cheating cases of all time This is the story of Alexandru Crisan — the fake chess Grandmaster Alexandru Crisan was born to unidentified parents on the 31st of July 1962 in the small Romanian town of Simleu Silvaniei a town in the Salaj County that is known for the Bathory Castle Picture of Simleu Silvaniei ©Simleu Silvaniei's Official Website Little is known about Crisan's early life but the first recorded game was played in 1984 in round three of an unknown Bucharest tournament against 18-year-old soon-to-be Grandmaster Efstratios Grivas had already amassed an astonishing rating of 2310 Anyone who has played club tournaments will know how stressful it is to face a strong player who defends stubbornly in addition to the sharp nature and the time trouble that was likely present in the endgame made it difficult to accurately guess the exact level the game was played at I would say that Crisan was at the level of an advanced club player like that one guy at your local club who shows up every weekend and wins a couple hundred dollars every time Crisan's first tournament of note came a few years later in 1989 when he participated in the Dutch Open. The Dutch Open was nothing like the local Bucharest tournaments in terms of participants' skill levels, consisting of two Grandmasters, several International Masters and a fast-improving 17-year-old named Loek van Wely did not attain a particularly desirable score only winning two and drawing two of his nine rounds to end the tournament on a score of 3/9 Crisan seemed like he would never be able to have his name remembered in the chess world especially since he was already 27 and not pulling off upsets like a prodigy but something would happen nobody would have expected there was a very small amount of games played by Crisan as indicated by his rating graph on ChessBase he gained massive amounts of rating at a time acquiring the title International Master in 1991 and Grandmaster two years later which would have placed him at 33rd in the world if he wasn't inactive Alexandru Crisan's FIDE Rating Graph ©ChessBase Grandmaster Michal Krasenkow wrote about this issue in the New In Chess Magazine: some of the names present in the list just bewilder we see a new top player with an amazing 2635 rating Alexandru Crisan One can hardly find any games of this guy in databases since 1989 (has rating of 1.1.1990 was 2235) I have taken the trouble to look at his recent results (thanks to the Internet rating database) These are near-100% scores in some Romanian tournaments one has never heard about the matter was brought to FIDE by the Romanian Chess Federation They  pointed out that they had detected irregularities concerning some tournament rating reports the arbiters who were said to be in charge denied ever signing these reports the tournament that supposedly brought Crisan to 2635 but there were no public records of this tournament ever occurring FIDE agreed to retract the 105 rating Crisan has gained in the Troeful Sfinx but did not interfere with anything else the Romanian Chess Federation was even favouring sanctions against him Results of the tournament ©The Chess Viking YouTube Channel Crisan's result in the tournament was disastrous Somehow he managed to draw a game against Adrian Mikhailchisin who seemed to be in a somewhat of drawing mood It would be quite difficult to find a player incapable of playing 57...Rxe3 and 58...Ke5 Since white's king could not get in front of the pawn it would be impossible to lose from there as black Crisan must have been kicking himself for how that game panned out After his dreadful performance in the 2001 Vidmar Memorial tournament, the FIDE qualifications body decided to strip Crisan of his GM title, but before implementation, a quick phone call from a politician friend of Crisan to FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov saw the title restored and the rating adjusted to just below 2600 Crisan's readjusted 2588 was just outside the top 100 in the July 2001 FIDE rankings ©ratings.fide.com who had fallen on hard times since the Yugoslavian meltdown in the early 1990s Most of Crisan's draws lasted less than 20 moves It was possible that those draws were legitimate as not many people have heard about Crisan yet so they might have thought that he was an actual 2588 rated player or there might have been some bribery involved those games weren't particularly interesting so I will only go through the ones against Rajkovic and Maksimovic Something I have noticed is that these games were going into very deep theory so either Crisan spent a few weeks revising his lines on Chessable prior to the tournament Maksimovic must have been chuckling to himself on move 23 when Crisan not being the 2588 level player he claimed to be was not able to discern the difference between the position in the 1985 Pinter - Olafsson game and the one on the board and tried to continue with the original plan of 23.Nxf7?? Maksimovic had to find a creative way to throw There was another game against former Yugoslavian champion Dusan Rajkovic which was interesting All the draws plus the four wins he got from Maksimovic and Rajkovic made Crisan end the tournament on 7/10, tied first with Hungarian GM Robert Ruck, although when you look at their respective Wikipedia pages, the Klodovo win is on Ruck's page but not on Crisan's page The final results of the Klodovo tournament ©365chess.com The last games played by Crisan were in the Danube Summer tournament in Tekija that same month this one was also played in a double round-robin format but with only two other players who were both Grandmasters from the former Yugoslavian Republic winning both of his games against Jacimovic and winning one and drawing one against Markovic while all the games played between the other two were drawn This tournament had games that terminated a lot more suddenly than the ones in Klodovo often ending when Crisan has an endgame advantage but the other player still has some chances the resignation by Jacimovic seemed quite random Sure he was down two pawns on the queenside but he could have tried to create counterplay with ideas like bringing the king to g1 via e2 and f1 which you would expect a Grandmaster to at least attempt The other game against Jacimovic was also very fishy it should not have been hard to find a better continuation than 35.Qg3 Even a move like 35.h3 would have survived since black can't play Bxf1 without being checkmated by 36.Rd8+ Kh7 37.Qf5+ g6 38.Qxf7# A move like Rc1 would have also been fine for white since Bxf1 fails so black would have to resort to repeat moves from shuffling rooks back and forth it is hard to say that the tournament was a legitimate one The final results of the Danube Summer tournament ©365chess.com Elisabeta Polihroniade confessed that she expected to be bankrupted by Crisan's lawsuits and political influence she started turning the tables legally when Crisan came under the spotlight it was not until 2010 that Crisan was sentenced to four years in prison for non-chess related corruption Despite FIDE trying to cover up their internal corruption by removing any records of the Klodovo and Danube Summer tournaments from Crisan's profile and making it seem like the rating was changed to 2132 after the Vidmar Memorial 2015 when he was finally stripped of his undeserved GM title and his rating adjusted down FIDE tried to cover up their internal corruption ©ratings.fide.com Crisan was not the only person who arranged titles for himself by playing in non-existent tournaments GM Ian Rogers alleged that FIDE Vice-President and Russian chess federation President Andrei Makarov had arranged an IM title for himself After the removal of Crisan's Grandmaster title in August, 2015, two other players, Gaioz Nigalidze and Igors Rausis had their GM titles stripped — both for bathroom cheating Latvian-Czech Grandmaster Igors Rausis had his title stripped after being caught cheating in 2019 When Crisan's case was under investigation by FIDE, GM Zurab Azmaiparashvili who at the time was one of the top players in the world it is clear to me that it was done in an illegal way However, Azmaiparashvili himself was alleged to have also rigged the results of the 1995 Strumica Tournament to boost his rating in which he played 18 rounds against significantly weaker opponents is generally regarded as an illegitimate event The main problem is people surrounding Ilyumzhinov The question begs itself: how many games one needs to buy and sell in order to become his assistant in FIDE or even FIDE Vice-President but we see in his team such people as Crisan and Azmaiparashvili This is an open secret and they don not deny it themselves How is it possible that these people are in the leadership of FIDE So should the story of Alexandru Crisan's story be remembered as a cautionary tale for others to not repeat his actions or were his actions undeserving of recognition Receive our weekly Newsletterand set tailored daily news alerts the company aims to respond even more effectively to its US customers Knitwear Südwolle launches online innovation platform Biella Yarn AW 2022/23 collection on show at Pitti He became the infamous Nazi doctor who performed horrendous genetic experiments on 1,500 sets of Jewish twins in captivity at the Auschwitz Death Camp in Poland during World War II Miriam (Mozes) Zieger were one of those sets of twins who suffered through the terrible ordeal and survived their two older sisters and their parents) was relocated by the Nazis from their home in Hungary to a regional Jewish ghetto in Simleu Silvaniei the Mozes family and many other Jewish families were loaded onto cattle cars and transported to the worst place possible — the Auschwitz Death Camp in Poland Stepping off the train and onto the infamous selection platform the twins were immediately separated from the rest of the Mozes family Eva and Miriam never saw their parents or older sisters again The Mozes twins were allowed to live and remain together as fresh recruits for Dr Mengele’s genetic experimentation on twins degrading and often deadly genetic experimentation under the supervision of Dr He was conducting the risky experiments to learn more about dominant genes in twins and how to manipulate them to bolster the reproduction of Germans — what he and most Germans considered to be the perfect Aryan race Most of the twins died during the rigorous phases of experimentation after two weeks in the Auschwitz infirmary was almost sent to the gas chamber for extermination Mengele gave children only two weeks to recover from the effects of his medical experiments he sent them to the gas chamber for extermination Eva somehow willed herself to survive and get back to Miriam who was living in one of the barracks for twins Although twins received a little better treatment than the rest of the Jews at Auschwitz daily life was a struggle for survival with inadequate food the Mozes twins strove to somehow stay alive The Auschwitz Camp was finally liberated by the advancing Soviet Army in late January of 1945 only 200 children were found to be alive of the 3,000 twins that had been selected for the medical experimentation Following their release from the death camp anyone else in their family who had survived imprisonment at Auschwitz The twins turned 11 years old a few days after being liberated the Mozes twins were bounced around to three different refugee camps They finally landed in Romania and were raised by an aunt Eva later joined the Israeli Army and met Michael Kor an American tourist who also happened to be a holocaust survivor They married in 1960 and came to the United States Eva began searching for other Auschwitz twin survivors She enlisted the help of her sister Miriam To further aid in that effort of reuniting Auschwitz twins CANDLES is an acronym for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors The organization helped reconnect 122 Mengele twins scattered around the world and provided a support network for each other Evan and Miriam returned to Auschwitz in 1991 and stood by the barbed-wire fence they had stood at 45 years earlier in the photo that depicted their liberation Miriam died from bladder cancer that was caused by one of the mysterious injections she had received at Auschwitz Miriam had almost died six years earlier of kidney disease also caused by the medical experimentation during her childhood Eva donated one of her kidneys to Miriam in 1987 and she lived for six more years until her death in 1993 50 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and in memory of her sister Eva Kor opened the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute She pronounced forgiveness upon the Nazis for the pain and suffering they caused her and her family at Auschwitz she made that forgiveness both personal and public Eva arranged to meet a former Nazi doctor named Dr Hans Munch at the Auschwitz camp and personally deliver her declaration of forgiveness to him as a former representative of the Nazi party Mengele and was aware of the atrocities being done there He even signed a public document testifying to gas chambers being used to exterminate Jews at Auschwitz somehow evaded capture for the rest of his life He was never brought to justice for his criminal medical experiments on 3,000 children He died by accidental drowning in 1979 while swimming off the coast of Brazil the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute tells the personal story of Eva and Miriam Mozes enduring Dr Mengele’s genetic medical experiments at Auschwitz and surviving the whole holocaust ordeal Their story brings to light the atrocity suffered by 3,000 Jewish twins CANDLES is Indiana’s only Holocaust museum and the only museum in the world dedicated to telling the story of twins subjected to medical experimentation during the Holocaust for the museum’s name because she liked the image of a candle shedding light on a dark story that had been unknown and untold for so long you can learn all about the Mozes family and their tragic journey to Auschwitz Mengele and the thousands of twins who suffered and died from his cruel genetic experimentation You can marvel at Eva and Miriam relying on each other during their captivity courageously surviving the whole ordeal and growing up to lead happy and productive lives you can consider the transformative power of forgiveness as you trace Eva’s profound decision to pronounce it upon the very people who killed her family and almost killed her and Miriam during your visit you might even run into Eva herself She still visits and speaks to groups at her museum She also still leads annual tours to the Auschwitz prison camp she once suffered in you can’t miss her intentional and bold message from Eva to all of us displayed at the end of the museum exhibits: “Anger is a seed for war CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center is located in Terre Haute It is open Tuesdays through Saturdays or by appointment Learn more at candlesholocaustmuseum.org or by calling 812-234-7881 You can also check out books written by Eva Kor including “Surviving the Angel of Death and Echoes from Auschwitz.” Our Stories.” He helps veterans share and preserve the stories of their military service For more information or to tell your story contact May at 317-435-7636 or by email at yourlifestory@live.com You can also follow him on Facebook at “Our Service Romanian Business News - ACTMedia :: Services|About us|Contact| RSS Justice Minister Radu Marinescu met on Monday with World Bank representatives in Romania for talks on the portfolio of investment projects in the judiciary for the present and the next five years the Justice Ministry said in a release.According to the said document judiciary investments for the next period consist of three main projects which will be carried out with WB support.The first is the Judicial Services Improvement Project which so far has seen contracts signed for approximately the entire value of the financing agreement specifically some 59.025 million euros of the 60 million euros (98.37%) As much as 49.7 million euros (82.85%) have been effectively spent to date and the rest of the previously contracted amounts will be spent by November 30 essentially for the continuation of works at the new headquarters of the Targu Neamt Court (current completion stage is 52%) the continuation of the design of the headquarters of the Corabia and Calafat courts as well as the continuation of the micro works required for the restoration of the LAN communication networks at 37 court headquarters grouped in 6 lots.The contracts signed under the project "Consolidation of the bases for judicial services improvement" amount to a combined 0.37 million euros of the 100 million euros available (0.37%) approximately 35 million euros are in the process of contracting (international public tenders in progress or in the phase of documentation preparation) and 0.02 million euros (0.02%) have been effectively spent to date.This project will enable the construction the completion of micro works necessary for the restoration of the LAN communication networks at the headquarters of 93 courts throughout the country the continuation of the design of Bucharest's Justice District the archiving and digitization of the passive archive of the Bucharest Tribunal and various support measures in the field of judicial and extrajudicial assistance including the possibility of creating a new profession in Romania (the community paralegal) by a similar model found in other European countries (the Netherlands New Zealand).The Justice Ministry also refers to the preparation of the Justice District Project which is in the stage of the feasibility study and the expropriation moves.To date contracts have been signed for approximately the entire value of the financing agreement in a cumulative amount of approximately 2.44 million US dollars out of the 2.5 million dollars available (97.58%) of which 2.02 million US dollars (80.8%) have been effectively spent to date the cited source shows."The funds were used over 2020 - 2024 for the full development and approval of the Feasibility Study (which accounts for 50% of the complete design documentation that will be used in the execution of the works) and the draft Government Decision was also prepared for the approval of the technical and economic indicators and the initiation of the expropriation of the private properties in the area of the Justice District investment project," the Justice Ministry reports.The rest of the previously contracted amounts can be spent until November 30 2025 (with the possibility of a one-year extension) notably for the effective conduct of the expropriation and for the restoration of the cadastral documentation and the post-expropriation land registers.There are also other priorities related to the Justice District which will continue over 2025-2026 and which refer to the continuation of negotiations with the World Bank and the Council of Europe Development Bank for the financing of the necessary civil works through a separate project and loan agreement estimated at a total 926 million euros to which Romania's contribution of approximately 385 million euros will add (Photo:https://www.just.ro/) © ACTMedia - Romanian Business News | Sitemap | Search | Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy Developed by Codecraftsman opens officially the first four stations in franchise The gas stations chain will operate under the Tiriac Energy–Sincro name Simleu-Silvaniei and Dorobantu county from Constanta “In Romania there are several hundreds of gas stations without a brand, that although they have a good placement, they don’t have enough power to outrun the already known chains. 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