Scînteia
（重定向自Scânteia）
![The penultimate issue of Scînteia, 21 December 1989. The headline reads:](/Images/godic/202502/09/Scînteia_21_decembrie_19895334.jpg")
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![Miner reading Scânteia](/Images/godic/202502/09/Miner_reading_Scanteia_19445334.jpg")
Scînteia ("The Spark"; the initial spelling of the name in Romanian was Scânteia until the change of the orthography in 1953, as it would have been again, the orthography having officially reverted in 1993) was the name of two newspapers edited by Communist groups at different intervals in Romanian history. The title was a borrowing from the Russian Iskra.