Editing Corneliu Vadim Tudor (section)

==Biography==
Tudor was born in [[Bucharest]] on 28 November 1949, into a working-class family, his father being a tailor.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,461425,00.html|title=Far-Right MPs Join Forces in EU Parliament: A Small Thorn in The EU's Side|publisher=Spiegel|date=23 January 2007|access-date=28 December 2012}}</ref> In his youth, being an admirer of the French film director [[Roger Vadim]], he chose the pseudonym '''Vadim''' as his middle name.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

In 1971, he received a degree in sociology from the Faculty of Philosophy of the [[University of Bucharest]], and in 1975, he studied at the School for Reserve Officers in Bucharest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ziare.com/corneliu-vadim-tudor/stiri-corneliu-vadim-tudor/corneliu-vadim-tudor-implineste-61-de-ani-1058629|title=Corneliu Vadim Tudor implineste 61 de ani|publisher=Ziare|date=26 June 2003|accessdate=28 December 2012|language=ro}}</ref> With the help of his mentor, [[Herder Prize]] winner [[Eugen Barbu]], he obtained a scholarship and studied in [[Vienna]] from 1978 to 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Corneliu+Vadim+Tudor/0/23579.html|title=Corneliu Vadim Tudor|website=www.munzinger.de|access-date=28 December 2012|language=German}}</ref> During the communist era, he worked as a journalist, editor, and poet: in the early 1970s, he was one of the editors at ''[[România liberă]]'', and after 1975 was an editor at the Romanian official press agency, [[Agerpress]]. He served as senator from 1992 to 2008. For the first time since 1990, after the [[2008 Romanian legislative election|election of 30 November 2008]], he and his party were no longer present in either of the Romanian legislative chambers. On 25 September 2001, Tudor renounced his parliamentary immunity from prosecution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hri.org/news/balkans/rferl/2001/01-09-25.rferl.html#30|title=RFE/RL Newsline|publisher=HRI|date=9 January 2001|access-date=28 December 2012}}</ref>

In December 2004, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate [[Elie Wiesel]] returned the ''[[Order of the Star of Romania|Steaua României]]'' medal, one of the country's highest honors, after President [[Ion Iliescu]] awarded Tudor the same honor in the last days of his presidency. Wiesel said he was returning the honor because he could not "accept being placed on the same level" as Tudor and fellow party member (and honor recipient) [[Gheorghe Buzatu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldpress.org/Europe/2001.cfm |title=Controversial Moves by Romanian President Before Exit|date=23 December 2004|website=www.worldpress.org}}</ref> 15 [[Radio Free Europe]] journalists, [[Timișoara]] mayor [[Gheorghe Ciuhandu]], songwriter {{ill|Alexandru Andrieș|ro}}, and historian [[Randolph Braham]] all returned their ''Steaua României'' medals as well due to the awards given Tudor and Buzatu.<ref>see the [[Ion Iliescu#Decorating Vadim Tudor|Ion Iliescu]] article</ref> Tudor's ''Steaua României'' award was revoked by Romanian president [[Traian Băsescu]] in May 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?data=2007-05-28&id=221358 |title=Vadim Tudor dez-onorat |lang=ro|date=27 May 2007|access-date=27 May 2007 |newspaper=[[Ziua]]|url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702071123/http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?data=2007-05-28&id=221358 |archive-date=2 July 2007}}</ref> Tudor consequently announced that he would sue Băsescu for abuse of power;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ziare.com/corneliu-vadim-tudor/traian-basescu/vadim-il-da-in-judecata-pe-basescu-pentru-retragerea-decoratiei-93736 |title=Vadim îl dă in judecată pe Băsescu pentru retragerea decorației|website=www.ziare.com|access-date=28 December 2012}}</ref> in the end, Tudor won the trial with Băsescu.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ziare.com/corneliu-vadim-tudor/traian-basescu/c-v-tudor-am-castigat-procesul-cu-basescu-in-cazul-steaua-romaniei-723453|title=C.V. Tudor: Am câștigat procesul cu Băsescu in cazul Steaua României|website=www.ziare.com}}</ref>

As a poet he made his debut in May 1965 at the national radio station with a poem read in the George Călinescu literary circle. He published several volumes of prose and poetry: ''Poezii'' (''Poems''; 1977), ''Epistole vieneze'' (''Viennese Epistles''; 1979), ''Poeme de dragoste, ură și speranță'' (''Poems of Love, Hatred and Hope''; 1981), ''Idealuri'' (''Ideals''; 1983), ''Saturnalii'' (''Saturnalia'', 1983), ''Istorie și civilizatie'' (''History and Civilization''; 1983), ''Mândria de a fi români'' (''The Pride of Being Romanian''; 1985), ''Miracole'' (''Miracles''; 1986 anthology), ''Jurnal de vacanță'' (''Holiday Journal'', 1996), ''Poems'' (translated in seven languages, published in Torino, Italy, 1998), ''Europa Creștină'' (''Christian Europe''), and ''Artificii'' (''Artifices''; 2010).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romania's most influential politician, dies at age 65|url=http://diasporaonline.info/home/actualitate/1715-corneliu-vadim-tudor-romanias-most-influential-politician-dies-at-age-65.html|accessdate=15 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072324/http://diasporaonline.info/home/actualitate/1715-corneliu-vadim-tudor-romanias-most-influential-politician-dies-at-age-65.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>