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Our channel's guest is Natalia Starikovskaya, a Balkanist, a specialist in Serbian literature and a great connoisseur of the largest Balkan country, Romania. Why do we in Russia know so little about Romania? How was the Romanian nation formed? Where did the legend of the Romanian car industry get its name Dacia? How does Romanian Orthodoxy differ from Russian? Until what century was Church Slavonic heard in Romanian churches? Did Count Dracula and Vlad the Impaler have anything to do with Transylvania? What do Serbian ghouls and Romanian vampires have in common? Who are the Russian Lipovans who live in the Danube Delta?