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Recent heavy rains have damaged Romania. 31 Romanian districts have been severely harmed by floods. Meteorologists have announced that the rains in the first 6 months of 2005 have been heavier than in any other 12 months of the last 50 years. River debits have gone higher than ever. The Siret debit is expected to become higher that the one reached in the Romanian floods in 1970. State of alert has been declared in three districts: Bacau, Vrancea, and Galati. Officials had videoconference. People's only solution has been to run away. People under flood menace have been evacuated.

French paintings exhibited in Little Paris

President Basescu, Ministry of Culture Mona Musca, French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, French Ambassador to Bucharest and more officials are to spend a few hours in an art gallery tonight.

The greatest French painting exhibition in Romania in the last 35 years has reached the National Art Museum in Bucharest to celebrate the Day of France. The itinerant "Shades and Lights" exhibition was previously displayed in Budapest and Warsaw.

The public can admire paintings by Georges de la Tour, Poussin, Fragonard, Ingres, Courbet, Delacroix, Corot, Cezanne, Balthus, Braque, Picasso, Matisse and more, estimated to 230 million Euro. The works exhibited belong to the main Paris museums (Louvre, Orsay, the National Museum of Modern Art) and art centers in Lyon, Dijon, Amiens, Montpellier, Rouen) (I.P.)

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