Nicolae Manolescu Nicolae Manolescu Nicolae Manolescu (; b. 27 November 1939, Râmnicu Vâlcea) is a Romanian literary critic. As an editor of "România Literară" literary magazine, he has reached a record in reviewing books for almost 30 years. Elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1997, he was upgraded to titular member in 2013. During the civil unrest of the 1960s, because of critical opinions voiced against Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej and the Romanian Communist regime, he was expelled from the University of Bucharest, where he was studying philology. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he was a founding member of
Nicolae Dudău Nicolae Dudău Nicolae Dudau (born December 19, 1945) is a Moldovan politician and was the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova. He was born on December 19, 1945 in Grinauti, Ocnița District, in the Moldovan SSR. From 1988 to 1990 he was the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Moldovan SSR. From 1990 to 1991 he was the First Secretary of the Chisinau City Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova. In 1994 he became the Ambassador of Moldova to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. In 1997, Daudu was appointed the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs