Category Archives: Journalism

From The Guardian: Ikea funds went to Romanian secret police in communist era

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Matei

Secret police files reveal six-figure payments to Ceausescu’s henchmen, as retailer denies knowingly paying Securitate. by the Deviant’s Matei Rosca in Bucharest  

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GUSH Cosmetics Au Naturel

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Matei

From between the Deviant’s sofa cushions! Eco-friendlier-than-thou multinational cosmetics corporation’s North America boss had ties with tar sands oil extraction and strip-mining industries. Soap tycoon Mark ‘Castevet’ Constantine of LUSH Cosmetics talks to the Deviant on the phone – shocking … Continue reading →

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Letter from Chișinău

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Matei

Cutting from Private Eye 1353 (NOV2013): back then I wrote the readers of Britain’s finest news and current affairs magazine a letter from Chisinau. At the time I didn’t know that Russia was about to go to war with Ukraine … Continue reading →

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