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 first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu, was buried on Thursday amid stark divisions over his legacy. He died at 95, symbolising Romania's tumultuous transition.

Romania’s growing bear population has turned conservation into confrontation for people living in the shadows of the ...

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 ...

Romania's first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu, was buried on Thursday amid stark divisions over his legacy. He died at 95, symbolising Romania's tumultuous transition.

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

He assumed power and his first major decision was to order that Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena be executed by firing squad on 25 December 1989.