Romania's first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu, was buried on Thursday amid stark divisions over his legacy. He died ...

Romania's former president Ion Iliescu died on Tuesday in Bucharest at the age of 95. Sorin Grindeanu, interim leader of ...

Iliescu has a complex legacy. He will be remembered as the country’s first democratic leader, and for his brutal crackdown ...

Shock poll claims Romanians are nostalgic for communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu: Who was he? A recent survey reveals 66.2% ...

Nevertheless, Nicolae Ceaușescu enjoyed some political respect on the international scene until the early 1980s. The West saw him as an autonomous voice vis-à-vis Moscow within the Warsaw Pact.

Hardman described Nicolae Ceaușescu as "the psychopath running communist Romania in the Cold War period." The historian noted that Nicolae and his wife, Elena, ruled over "Romania with a rod of ...

The Queen once went to extreme measures to avoid a controversial house guest, hiding in the foliage of her Buckingham Palace gardens. In 1978, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu travelled to the ...

Former apparatchik played leading role in regime change and country’s pivot to west but also brutally repressed dissent ...