Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after Communism, helped bring down the country’s dictatorship and led ...

On the day of Ion Iliescu's funeral, the polarizing legacy of Romania's first elected president after the fall of communism ...

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

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

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

The funeral service of Romanian former president Ion Iliescu was performed on Thursday, August 7, an official mourning day in ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first post-Communist president, who oversaw the country’s transition to democracy after the overthrow of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 but whose reputation was ...

Iliescu, who held de facto military authority during the anticommunist revolt, assumed power after Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and his wife Elena, were executed on Dec. 25, 1989.

Ion Iliescu, Romania's first leader after the collapse of the Ceausescu dictatorship, died at 95. He saw himself as a savior, but was accused of crimes against humanity in the 1989 revolution.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation was the sole foreign mission to send a message of condolences following the death of ...

Romania's former President Ion Iliescu, who led its transition from communism and set it on the path to European Union and NATO membership, but faced charges of crimes against humanity for ...