Stelian Tănase

Who is Stelian Tănase?

Stelian Tănase is a Romanian writer, historian, journalist, political analyst, and talk show host. Having briefly engaged in politics during the early 1990s, after the fall of the Communist regime, he has remained a leading figure of the Romanian civil society.

A founding member of both the Group for Social Dialogue and the Civic Alliance, he was the latter's vice-president between 1991 and 1993. In 1990, Tănase co-founded the political magazine 22, and, in 1992, he founded Sfera Politicii; he is a managing editor of both, as well as a regular contributor to various Romanian newspapers. Over the years, he was the host of several talk shows.

Tănase is also vocal in the campaign to declassify all files kept in Securitate archives; in March 2002, he invited on his talk show a discussion his best friend, after it was revealed that the latter had been a Securitate informant who regularly furnished information on Tănase himself. Since 2014 he is the president of TVR.