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 ...

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

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

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

Initially hailed as the man who would lead Romania into a new democratic era, Iliescu's legacy soon became more complicated.

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

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

Tensions have emerged within Romania's ruling coalition following disagreements over the state funerals of former president ...

Iliescu had been admitted to hospital with lung cancer roughly two months ago. "History will judge Ion Iliescu, the main ...

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