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 ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes ...

He was Romania's first freely elected leader after communism fell in 1989, and later faced charges of crimes against humanity ...

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.

The interim president of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD), Sorin Grindeanu, has summoned the party's leading body ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first president after the fall of communism in December 1989 and one of the country’s most influential ...

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

Iliescu has a complex legacy. He will be remembered as the country’s first democratic leader, and for his brutal crackdown ...

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