Romania’s first post-1989 president, Ion Iliescu, and his allies confiscated the anti-communist revolution and executed a ...

A memorial march will take place in central Bucharest on December 21 to mark the victims of the 1989 Revolution, which led to ...

The Romanian Revolution began in earnest when Ceausescu made the mistake of appearing on live TV to speak about the violent crackdown on political protesters in Timisoara, allowing the whole country ...

Twenty years ago this week Romania’s hated dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu and his wife Elena were executed, bringing to an end a series of revolutions in 1989 in which the nations of the Eastern bloc ...

I was 4 years old when I watched the execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife by firing squad live on national television on Christmas day, 1989. The former Romanian dictator had been deposed amid ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody revolution, has died. He was 95 ...

BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanian prosecutors have formally indicted former President Ion Iliescu for crimes against humanity over his role in deaths that occurred during Romania's anti-communist ...

Thirty years after the revolution, the heirs to the communist regime’s infamous secret police service remain impregnable and unaccountable – the undisputed victors of the country’s botched ...

FILE - In this March 24, 2013 file photograph taken with a long exposure, Romanian Catholic worshipers attend a Palm Sunday religious service at the St. Joseph cathedral in Bucharest, Romania.

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