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 ...

Iliescu, who held de facto military authority during the anticommunist revolt, assumed power after Communist dictator Nicolae ...

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

Iliescu went from a rising member of Romania's Communist Party to a leader of the bloody December 1989 revolution - which ...

The casket carrying the body of Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first elected president after the bloody fall of communism in 1989, ...

On the day of Ion Iliescu's funeral, the polarizing legacy of Romania's first elected president after the fall of communism ...

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

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

On the day of Ion Iliescu’s funeral, the polarizing legacy of Romania’s first elected president after the fall of communism was laid bare. While many dignitaries paid their respects to the late ...

Iliescu became Romania's interim president and oversaw the rapid dismantling of the Ceausescu regime. In May 1990, he and his party won the elections with 85 percent of the vote.