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

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 freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes ...

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

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

The funeral service of Romanian former president Ion Iliescu was performed on Thursday, August 7, an official mourning day in ...

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

"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 ...

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

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun. Former president Ion Iliescu is an important leader of Romania and old ...

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