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

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

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

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

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 ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — 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 ...

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

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

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

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first president after the fall of communism in December 1989 and one of the country’s most influential ...

Initially hailed as the man who would lead Romania into a new democratic era, Iliescu's legacy soon became more complicated.