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Professor and political scientist Vladimir Tismaneanu apologized for an offensive Facebook post that has come under the fire of the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD), stating that he didn't give in-depth consideration to its racist implications, and voicing his openness to working with Roma community activists to combat hate, intolerance, and bigotry.
President of the National Council for Combating Discrimination Asztalos Csaba announced that the institution would take ex-officio action in the case of Vladimir Tismaneanu's Facebook post, if no complaints are filed about it, and that it will also refer the case to the University of Maryland where Tismaneanu is a professor of politics. The "Elie Wiesel" Institute also requested apologies from the writer.
The incriminated message contained an ethnic slur against the Roma.
