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

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

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

Tensions have emerged within Romania's ruling coalition following disagreements over the state funerals of former president ...

Romania is holding two days of state funerals for former president Ion Iliescu, the country’s first elected head of state ...

Remembering Ion Iliescu, the first President of democratic Romania, who passed away at the age of 95 due to lung cancer.

The Moscow-trained engineer took power after the bloody 1989 revolution that culminated in the overthrow and execution of ...

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 led its transition from communism and set it on the path to European Union and ...

The former president of Romania, Ion Iliescu, will be buried today. Yesterday, he was laid on the catafalque in the Union ...

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

Ion IIiescu, the former president of Romania has died at the age of 95.IIiescu, who was in charge during the country's ...