Twenty years ago this week Romania’s hated dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu and his wife Elena were executed, bringing to an end a series of revolutions in 1989 in which the nations of the Eastern bloc ...

Using Google Earth as our framework, we retrace the Romanian Revolution by mapping the demonstrations, clashes, and pivotal locations that reshaped the country in December 1989. We begin in Timișoara, ...

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 ...

Newswise — Twenty years ago, history beckoned to Dr. David Michelson. Michelson, then 14, was living with his family in Bucharest, Romania. His father, a historian, was studying in Romania on a ...

Romania kicked off a series of commemorations to mark 30 years since the overthrow of the tyrannical regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, staging a “freedom march” in the town of Timisoara, cradle of the 1989 ...

Twenty years ago this month, Romania became the last Eastern Bloc nation to win its independence. But unlike its neighbors who were involved in the Revolutions of 1989 – Poland, Hungary, East Germany, ...

BRUSSELS—Twenty-five years ago, the Romanian people revolted against dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, ending 42 years of communism in Romania in December of 1989. That revolution was probably triggered by ...

Ion Iliescu and other former Romanian leaders again face trial for alleged crimes committed during the 1989 overthrow of Ceausescu's dictatorship. Former President Ion Iliescu gestures at a ...

On 21 and 22 December 1989, Romania's revolution reached its tipping point. The dictator Nicolae Ceausescu fled. Millions rejoiced. But, as Petru Clej reports, there are still many questions ...