The casket carrying the body of Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first elected president after the bloody fall of communism in 1989, ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes ...

As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of ...

As president, he steered the country through its transition to democracy. He was later accused of crimes against humanity.

Ion Iliescu, who has died aged 95, was a Romanian politician who approved the summary execution of his predecessor, the ...

"To understand Iliescu, you must grasp the complexity of Romania's 1990s," says political analyst Teodor Tita. "He was ...

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

Romania's former President Ion Iliescu, who led its transition from communism and set it on the path to European Union and ...

Romania's former president Ion Iliescu, who died aged 95 on Tuesday, was long hailed as Romania's "little father" but faced ...

Iliescu was Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, and later faced charges of crimes ...

Ion IIiescu, the former president of Romania has died at the age of 95.IIiescu, who was in charge during the country's ...

Romania is holding two days of state funerals for former president Ion Iliescu, the country’s first elected head of state ...