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 ...

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 ...

Romania's first elected president after communism, Ion Iliescu, was buried Thursday amid stark divisions over his legacy. A religious ceremony was held at the presidential Cotroceni Palace before ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban has stated on Sunday, when referring to the Romanian Revolution, that "only the culprits want to hide the truth" and, at the same time, "they want to forget the crimes of ...

A series of riveting historical images from a documentary that captures the final, violent end of totalitarian communism in Eastern Europe, went on display in SUNY Cortland’s Old Main Colloquium ...

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 ...