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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu -- one of the most influential but also controversial political leaders of ...

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

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

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

President-elect Iliescu ran on a message of protection for Romania's poorest, but tempered that message once victory became apparent with a different pledge - to continue painful economic reforms.