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 ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after Communism, helped bring down the country’s dictatorship and led ...

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

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 ...

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

Romania's former President Ion Iliescu, who led its transition from communism and set it on the path to European Union and ...

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

Ion Iliescu, Romania's first leader after the collapse of the Ceausescu dictatorship, died at 95. He saw himself as a savior, ...

As president, he steered the country through its transition to democracy. He was later accused of crimes against humanity.

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