In December 1989, Romania was shaken by 10 days of protests that led to the fall of Europe's last communist dictatorship. The protests started in Timisoara in the west of the country and spread to ...

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 ...

BRASOV, Romania -- On Romanian Heroes' Day, Ileana Negru, a 66-year-old woman whose son Florin was just 12 when he was killed in the 1989 revolution, went to a mountain road outside the central city ...

'A mission of honor': key players recall Romania's bloody revolution. Oct. 21, 2009 — -- The camera slowly pans across the faces of the executed, across the waxy face of the woman, surrounded by ...

Ion Iliescu and other former Romanian leaders again face trial for alleged crimes committed during the 1989 overthrow of Ceausescu's dictatorship. Former President Ion Iliescu gestures at a ...

A 66-year-old Romanian woman died last month after setting herself on fire in a mountain resort near the central city of Brasov, Romanian media reported on June 9. Ileana Negru, whose 12-year-old son, ...

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 ...