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, ...

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

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

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first post-Communist president, who oversaw the country’s transition to democracy after the overthrow of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 but whose reputation was ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania's first leader after the collapse of the Ceausescu dictatorship, died at 95. He saw himself as a savior, but was accused of crimes against humanity in the 1989 revolution.

Iliescu, who held de facto military authority during the anticommunist revolt, assumed power after Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and his wife Elena, were executed on Dec. 25, 1989.

Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu, who presided over the country's chaotic transition from communism to democracy, has died aged 95. Iliescu had been diagnosed with lung cancer and ...

Romania's former President Ion Iliescu, who led its transition from communism and set it on the path to European Union and NATO membership, but faced charges of crimes against humanity for ...

Ion Iliescu, who has died aged 95, was a Romanian politician who approved the summary execution of his predecessor, the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, during the Christmas uprising of 1989, and then ...

Ion Iliescu, a figure whose name is intertwined with the tumultuous birth of modern Romania, has died at the age of 95. A career politician who shaped the country's transition from communism to ...