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

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

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, ...

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.

He was Romania's first freely elected leader after communism fell in 1989, and later faced charges of crimes against humanity ...

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 ...

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

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

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.