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

A recent survey reveals 66.2% of Romanians believe Nicolae Ceaușescu was a good leader, despite his repressive regime.

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 ...

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

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

Tensions have emerged within Romania's ruling coalition following disagreements over the state funerals of former president ...

A recent survey reveals 66.2% of Romanians believe Nicolae Ceaușescu was a good leader, despite his repressive regime. In a surprising result from today's Romania, most citizens believe that ...

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

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.

Later it was brutally disfigured by the communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who left behind a starkly Socialist-style residential zone and the city's main landmark – the Palace of the Parliament.