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

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

Shock poll claims Romanians are nostalgic for communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu: Who was he? A recent survey reveals 66.2% of Romanians believe Nicolae Ceaușescu was a good leader, despite ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A24's Civil War draws parallels to several real-life dictators, most notably Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. Like Nick Offerman's President in Civil War, Nicolae Ceaușescu was executed ...

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