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Till recently, it has been better known for its litter and the world's largest stray-dog problem.
ECONOMIST: Romania��s capital mayor
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The two countries are not unlike: small, peripheral, Roman Catholic and till recently highly dependent on farming.
ECONOMIST: Portugal
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The bank, Lightstone Group and Park Avenue Funding shared office space till recently.
FORBES: David Lichtenstein's Bank Failure
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GDP, but gets only 15%, and till recently much less, of public investment?
ECONOMIST: Charlemagne
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With unemployment still high and money wages till recently running behind prices, there seems little danger of prices spiralling.
ECONOMIST: A mild relapse in Brazil
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He is going because he expected criticism would continue to be relentless of his failure to prevent or expose serious wrongdoing at News International, where he was chairman till recently and chief executive prior to that.
BBC: Why James Murdoch is giving up BSkyB chair
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He admits it was touch-and-go till recently.
FORBES: India's Big Bet On Australian Coal
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Founded by Swedish entrepreneurs Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in 2006, it has about 10 million users in Europe (most of whom use the free service), and till recently has struggled to break into the United States because of reluctance by labels.
FORBES: Yuri Milner's DST Global Bets On Spotify's Future In America And Mobile
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Meanwhile, the Christian Democrats have at least for the moment rallied behind their till-recently-beleaguered leader, Angela Merkel.
ECONOMIST: Germany's Christian Democrats
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Commercial farming in Mato Grosso has had to overcome formidable obstacles: high transport costs, recently low world prices, a currency till now overvalued, and a chronic lack of farm credit.
ECONOMIST: Brazil
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Recently, in exchange for cheaper gas, Russians extended their lease of the fleet till 2042.
BBC: Crimea, the Ukraine��s odd beach paradise