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

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

On the day of Ion Iliescu's funeral, the polarizing legacy of Romania's first elected president after the fall of communism ...

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.

Iliescu, who held de facto military authority during the anticommunist revolt, assumed power after Communist dictator Nicolae ...

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

Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu -- one of the most influential but also controversial political leaders of ...

Romanian former president Ion Iliescu, who presided over the eastern European country's chaotic transition from communism to democracy, died on Tuesday aged 95, the government said.

Romania's former president Ion Iliescu, who died aged 95 on Tuesday, was long hailed as Romania's "little father" but faced ...

Priests perform a brief religious service next to the coffin of the late Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected ...

Honor guard soldiers carry the coffin of the late Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of ...