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 ...

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

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

Initially hailed as the man who would lead Romania into a new democratic era, Iliescu's legacy soon became more complicated.

Ion Iliescu, Romania's first leader after the collapse of the Ceausescu dictatorship, died at 95. He saw himself as a savior, ...

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

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

Remembering Ion Iliescu, the first President of democratic Romania, who passed away at the age of 95 due to lung cancer.

The Moscow-trained engineer took power after the bloody 1989 revolution that culminated in the overthrow and execution of ...

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

Ion Iliescu, the first president of Romania after the 1989 Revolution, was buried yesterday with military honors.