BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ion Iliescu, former president of Romania, who died on 5 August at the age of 95, 20 years after retiring from political life. (© ...

Catalin Ranco Pitu, the former head of Romania's Military Prosecutor's Office has told DW that the sonic weapon allegedly used during the massive protest in Belgrade on March 15 was similar to the one ...

Protesters confront security forces in Bucharest during Romania’s 1989 revolution. (Photo: National Museum of Romanian History / Project Communism in Romania Collection) (CN) — Thirty-six years after ...

The exhibition "Reflections on the Revolution: 35 Years of History," featuring images from the archive of the AGERPRES National News Agency, will be inaugurated at the Metropolitan Library of ...

More than a thousand people were killed in what became Europe’s bloodiest anti-communist uprising and would topple Communist ...

Mr Iliescu assumed power after Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed on December 25 1989. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's ...

International Studies undergraduate Ingrid Ioan spoke about her traumatic experiences during the 1989 Romanian revolution Wednesday afternoon. Born in 1977 in Bucharest, Romania, under the rule of ...

"The series of revolutions of 1989 fundamentally changed the political, economic, axiological and cultural map of the world. Triggered by a deep and widespread dissatisfaction with the ideological ...

BUCHAREST — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody revolution, has ...