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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago, on 11 March 1990, in the Piata Operei (Operei Square) of western Timisoara a manifestation took place staged by the "Timisoara", "Europa" societies and the "16 Decembrie" ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — 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 ...