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

As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of ...

The Embassy of the Russian Federation was the sole foreign mission to send a message of condolences following the death of ...

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

Ion Iliescu, who has died aged 95, was a Romanian politician who approved the summary execution of his predecessor, the ...

"To understand Iliescu, you must grasp the complexity of Romania's 1990s," says political analyst Teodor Tita. "He was ...

Romania's former president Ion Iliescu died on Tuesday in Bucharest at the age of 95. Sorin Grindeanu, interim leader 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 led its transition from communism and set it on the path to European Union and ...

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

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

Iliescu was Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, and later faced charges of crimes ...