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

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 ...

Romania's first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu, was buried on Thursday amid stark divisions over his legacy. He died ...

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

Ion Iliescu was born on March 3, 1930, one of four brothers, in Oltenita, a town of 10,000 on the Danube, south of Bucharest. His father, Alexandru, was a locomotive mechanic who joined the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Iliescu's passing triggers coalition spat Many former leaders and officials paid tribute to Iliescu, in contrast to the Save Romania Union party, a governing coalition partner that opposed the day ...