In December 1989, Romania was shaken by 10 days of protests that led to the fall of Europe's last communist dictatorship. The protests started in Timisoara in the west of the country and spread to ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Twenty-five years ago the people rose up against Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, executed him and set the country on a path to democracy. One of the near victims of the revolt that ...

TIMISOARA, Romania (AP) — Adrian Kali remembers a two-year-old girl being shot dead in front of him twenty-five years ago to this day during Europe’s last anti-communist revolution of 1989. The ...

BRASOV, Romania -- On Romanian Heroes' Day, Ileana Negru, a 66-year-old woman whose son Florin was just 12 when he was killed in the 1989 revolution, went to a mountain road outside the central city ...

Military prosecutors investigating for a fourth time the 1989 uprising that led to the fall of Communism said they had proof that an orchestrated movement led by army officers and some civilians ...

A decision to reopen the files into the bloody events of 1989 has reawakened the hopes of Romanians who took part in the anti-communist uprising and whose loved ones were killed. When Gabriela Birbora ...

A 66-year-old Romanian woman died last month after setting herself on fire in a mountain resort near the central city of Brasov, Romanian media reported on June 9. Ileana Negru, whose 12-year-old son, ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody ...

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