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 ...

Still haunted by the legend of a vampire count and the legacy of a communist dictator, Romania is complex – with an epic ...

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

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 ...

Romania's last Communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, was known for his repressive regime, in which children were recruited as police spies; food, electricity, and gas were rationed; and ...

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

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first president after the fall of communism in December 1989 and one of the country’s most influential ...