BUCHAREST, Romania — The casket carrying the body of Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first elected president after the bloody fall of communism in 1989, was transferred on Wednesday from the hospital where he ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania's first leader after the collapse of the Ceausescu dictatorship, died at 95. He saw himself as a savior, but was accused of crimes against humanity in the 1989 revolution.On ...

Ion Iliescu, the former Romanian president who steered his country through its transition from communism to democracy and was dogged by controversy over his own political past, has died. He was 95.

Ion Iliescu in 2000, when he won a third term as president of Romania - Robert Ghement/EPA Ion Iliescu, who has died aged 95, was a Romanian politician who approved the summary execution of his ...

A young immigrant has delivered a crushing history lesson to New Yorkers about communism after the new mayor Zohran Mamdani's controversial inaugural address. Bogdan Laurentiu, a Romanian who ...