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

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 ...

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

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 president after the fall of communism in December 1989 and one of the country’s most influential ...

As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of ...

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

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

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

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