PSD leader and presidential runner-up Mircea Geoana admitted a second unofficial visit to Moscow. Elsewhere in the news, Romanians earn a mean income of 150,000 euros in a lifetime, not enough to allow them to dream of affording their own home. Last but not least, two foreign banks active on the Romanian market are breaking a gentlemen's agreement by deciding to take their money out of the country.

PSD leader and presidential runner-up Mircea Geoana admitted a second unofficial visit to Moscow after he resigned from Romania's Supreme Defence Council (CSAT), meaning after June 7, Romania Libera reads. Mircea Geoana announced his resignation from CSAT on the day of the elections for the European Parliament. According to the publication, Geoana had mentioned possible contacts with Moscow in 2008.

The PSD leader said that a visit for Romania’s incumbent president Traian Basescu's to the Russian Capital was also being prepared. "I went to Moscow because it was anticipated that I will become Prime-Minister, because PSD had won the elections", Geoana declared, adding that it was the correct decision for the main institutions of the state, namely the presidential administration and the potential Government to re-establish their links with the political power in the East, the newspaper reads quoting Romanian news agency NewsIn.

Mircea Geoana said he met people from both the Russian presidential and governmental administrations, which also happen when he goes in unofficial visits to the US. He said it was not a secret meeting because he was accompanied by the Romanian Protection and Guard Service (SPP). The social-democratic says he's ready to teach Foreign Affairs to Basescu (PD-L) and Crin Antonescu (PNL), runners for presidency. He took the chance to accuse the Economy minister Adriean Videanu for having given the Russian gas company Gazp